Duplicate Quick Drop Item Names

So at NI Week Darren showed off some neat Quick Drop functions. I asked a question about how do I add items from my user library. The answer was it already does this automatically. But when I went to my quick drop search it couldn't find a few items I was looking for. After some testing I now realize that's because there exists on the palette two seperate VIs with the same name and Quick Drop appears to be picking one.
So is there a way to support having multiple quick drop functions to VIs that are on the palette? Is there a way possibly to specify the relative (or absolute) path to the VI I want to drop? At least then I can create a short hand command to bring up the function I want.
The two functions I've seen this on is the the "Wait (ms)" and the "Enqueue Element". OpenG has made a very nice Wait function with the option to pass through errors, and abort on an occurance. But unfortunatly it is named the same as the native function. Internally we have also implemented a wrapped function for the Enqueue Element function and given it the same name. We can rename our function to be something else like "Enqueue Element Hooovahh Edition" but we can't go around renaming OpenG functions. Thanks.
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Okay so I believe the issue is not the name of the VI. You see the name of the OpenG VI is actually "Wait (ms)__ogtk.vi" But this isn't what the quick drop will index as the name. Quick drop indexes the name of the window if it is different then the name of the VI. So if you go to the Window Appearance on the OpenG VI you'll see that the Window Title is "Wait (ms)" which is the same name as the native wait primative.
To demo this I've attached two VIs. One named "Wait (ms)2.vi" and "Wait (ms)3.vi" paste them into your 2012 user.lib, then run the Refresh Palette (or restart LabVIEW). You'll now see both VIs under the user library category. But when you go to quick drop and type "Wait (ms)" you only see the primative and number 2 but not 3. This is because the native wait comes up and not the "Wait (ms)3.vi" which has the same window title as the native VI.
Another way to demo this is just to install the OpenG Timing functions then go to quick drop and try to drop the OpenG Wait, or Tick Count. Both of these are quite handly to insert onto a error wire but quick drop can't do that at the moment.
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