funkmunk: you'd have to make a script in /etc/init.d/ or /etc/event.d/ to make that happen. Originally realsportscars had something like this implemented, but it caused fastsms to restart every time hildon-desktop restarted. I suspect he had it in /etc/event.d, tied to hildon-desktop. I think putting it into /etc/init.d and tying it to hildon-desktop should work well enough though. (You'll still need to wait a little bit longer when you boot up the phone, but it won't be as noticeable as when you're waiting for the vkb to load.)

Btw, realsportscars, we figured out my above bug in the FastSMS thread. It was QT mobility having problems with multiple IM accounts being enabled for the same serivce. (I.E. I have multiple GMail accounts set up, so QTMobility fails to work, supposedly.)