Disabling Predictive Text Bar on Niki?

[Khrushy]

Hey ladies and gents, I need a bit of a hand here.

I've had a thorough look around and search but I can't seem to find a *good* way of removing the predictive text bar from the niki.

I tried this:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Layouts\e0010409]
"Layout Text"="COMP IME"
"Ime File"="\\windows\\compime.dll"
"Keyboard Layout"="00000409"

Which worked for my old touch - and while it *does* remove the predictive text bar on the Niki too, it also disables xT9 on the hardware keypad, which is hardly ideal.

Does anyone know how to disable the predictive text bar without killing the other keyboard settings too?

[KevinLuong]

In a similar vein, does anybody know how to reduce the font size in the predictive text bar? I can't find the appropriate registry entry, and it's set fairly large in Tom's V2 ROM.