I felt like you about the whole hot key thing. I always speed dial from my home screen & all the other themes I downloaded with the hot keys drove me nuts...so I would just delete them. But I decided to give it a chance & I'm actually liking it now that I'm getting use to it.
I had to look at the original post of the theme on berrycn to see how each theme worked. I actually printed them out at work so I could look at it if I forget which keys I programmed! On the theme I'm using now I programmed zero for my messages & it's working out well. Look at berrycn & there's all the info you need to program the hot keys. If you have any trouble just pm me & I'll try to walk you through it.
I was going through this thread and I saw this post and was wondering how you programmed some hotkeys on the Precision Zen theme. I know that some of them are pre-programmed (f-profiles, u-calculator, etc.), but I'm wondering how you can program a key for yourself.