Hello,
i am running a minimal theme with out any sort of "start menu" all it has is the taskbar in the lower left hand corner that i would like to remove. the only problem is that if i minimize trillian i have no easy way to bring it back up. normally i would just double click on the icon in the taskar, but i want to remove the taskbar. i am also running object dock and would like to make a shortcut that will maximize trillian, i already have a shortcut to open a new instantance of trillian but thats not what i need.

Why don't you run a system tray module hidden and then show it on a hotkey or hotspot?

This should do the trick if you use jdesk.
Middle mouse wheel down action.

Trillian does not appear in the task list...only the tray. Evil app.