...some more info/things noticed on the 1.3 test update.
1) basically, the unlock in this update is now the "Pull Ring to Unlock" HTC Sense unlock screen. ---I'm guessing reverting to the htc sense unlock corrects the problem with being able to answer the calls before unlocking.
Was there a way to possibly correct this without using the htc sense ring unlock?
2) clicking the camera to start now doesn't show the stretched/distorted blue camera icon that someone noted as a small fix to make earlier in this thread. no icon is shown. its just straight to the camera now.
*i'll edit this later if i notice anything else as being changed
I will probably post 1.3 and changelog today. Basically there is no way to have calls go through the lockscreen without the sense unlock ring. It's built into the framework that way and since it isn't open source it can't be changed. I figured its much better to have the sense ring and get calls to show up rather than how it was before. Yea the camera splash screen was removed for faster loading