IPhone 3G - SMS /Test Messaging Options?

Can anyone tell me if there are any iphone settings or downloadable apps that can change the current look of how sms messages appear on screen. Rather than the bubble conversation look, can you set up folders to store messages in? Can you change the look to single view messages only, etc, etc?

I am having a similar issue, though it is not a "phantom" message.
I get a text message and it'll chime.
If I don't "read" the message/don't touch the phone and allow it to go back to sleep, the SMS tone chimes again about 4-5 minutes later but it does not activate the screen.
Thinking I have a new text, I will activate the screen and see that it was the SMS text I had received 5 minutes earlier and there is, in fact, no new message.
Is this just an alert that you had received a message earlier or is this a bug?

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