Specifically what I was looking for was the patch listed in the CHANGELOG.txt for 0.49:
* Patch to jump to task within page - by Thomas Liebertraut

I was hoping to use it as a todo list, but not jumping to the exact todo line in the page when that todo is selected in the plugin window makes an extra step of searching for it that is kind of a bother. Other than that I do not have any specific features I know of that the newest version has, just thought it would be good if the version I run on the desktop matched.

I have played around with python and GTK and written a simple app to parse some XML using python and elementtree and display it in a GTKTreeview that successfully runs on maemo. But I would not say I have much experience. Just plinked around till it worked basically.