something dawned on me about that full screen osk. there is one other place where one of the same issues (specifically, that about not including previous input into its text area) shows up, and thats in the terminal.

if one have part of a command written, and tries to use the full screen osk, its text area will show up blank.

this is a behavior thats been around as far back as the 770, iirc. this makes me wonder about how the full screen osk interfaces with the rest of the setup, as the normal osk seems to have no such problems.