Hi Mark,
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1) Did you can use custom ReplyTo's on your BlackBerry now? You're no longer limited to one anymore. Check out BlackBerry PowerToys.
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PoketDay only provides half of the solution... it allows you to set your Reply-To address (which is great), but cannot set the From address which is displayed to the recipient.
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2) Sidekick may do some pages better, but I don't have any stability problems with my BlackBerry HTML browser, so I think that will be solved when you get the HTML browser. Also, my BlackBerry (on BES4.0) does something the Sidekick cannot: I successfully log onto two of my online banking websites! (But you need BES4.0 though)
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Yeah, I'm expecting this will be cleared up when 4.0 is finally released for the Cingular 7290.
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3) Are you using Verichat Version 1.91? It's much more stable than older versions of Verichat. I have never had it crash before on me, and it successfully automatically reconnects after returning from weak reception. It may not be as graphically fancy as the Sidekick stuff, but version 1.91 is pretty polished compared to the older Verichats (i.e. 1.48 which often crashed)
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I'm using 1.78b. I think Verichat is a great app and actually haven't had problems with it... never had it crash and it seems to maintain / recover the connection well.
Many of the Sidekick strengths for IM are feature level stuff that the Verichat guys could prob replicate quite easily (don't know if they have played w/the Sidekick, but would be worth the investment to pick one up for comparison).
Some examples:
o non-disruptive online/offline messages and "previews" of IMs received while not in a chat session (I.e.- just like your PC behaves w/the little Yahoo! IM notifications on the bottom right of the screen)
o new IM message indicator w/numerical counter in the status bar (similar to new voicemail message)
o active IM session indicator in buddy list to tell you which users you are chatting w/
o shortcut keys to easily switch to / cycle through active chat sessions (equivilent of ALT+[0-9], where 0-9 is the # of the chat session you want to switch to)
o all Yahoo! IM sounds (nice little touch)
o full Preferences control just like you have on your desktop client (without things like "Webcam" of course)
+ Yahoo! IM and AOL IM on the sidekick are both free.