no - after rebooting there's no way for the blackberry os to know the shortcuts have icons associated with them - there is a way of doing it but it'd require all the shortcuts to autostart on startup, assign their icons and then quit themselves. it's a whole extra load of development and the gains aren't worth it, it's not really a big deal anyway.

and yes - making a proper text editor that can handle extensions other than .txt would be a fudge and lazy, i was just reluctant to go and rebuild/codesign all ten shortcuts as it's a monotonous ballache but i'll find time in the next few days to get it done.

cheers all!