this is quite lame, but for now you can do this:

- download NOTEPAD.bmp
http://www.beyondconvention.net/ohussain/images/NOTEPAD.bmp

- put it in simplicity\images\blue (i hope you were using blue :P)

- now you can use the following shortcut line:
*Shortcut "" 10 10 NOTEPAD.bmp .none .none #0 "D:\LiteStep\LSTS_NOTICE.txt"

'10 10' are the x, y coordinates - 0, 0 is the upper left corner of your screen. the "D:\LiteStep\LSTS_NOTICE.txt" bit is the full path to your text file. the quotes are in case there are any spaces.

i don't like this solution, but it works. :|