Okay, I have solved issue #3, I was doing some scripting to control its position and it just all kinda fell together. I'm not sure exactly what was wrong.

I'd still like to be able to close the popup when I select a minimized entry. It seems strange that the OnSelect just doesn't work with minimized items....

All of the other problems are still issues to me, so help is as always deeply appreciated.

Thanks for your time.

[edit] 5: It appears that the problem here is autoresizing... It isn't changing the height (vertical bar) from 0... I am using:

xtask2onadd !xTaskbarResizeBy xtask2 0 20
xtask2onremove !xTaskbarResizeBy xtask2 0 -20

(I have also tried variations of those bangs, things like !xtask2Resizeby ...., but those haven't worked either. Could someone tell me the right command for this or suggest another reason this might not be working?

[EDIT] I have solved #5 now.

Thanks