Motorola KRZR K1m

I can't seem to program my phone to remember new words in iTap. I have tried entering them letter by letter with iTap, as the manual seems to suggest, entering the word in abc and immediately switching to iTap at the end of the word, etc. It doesn't seem to store them in the dictionary. Anyone else have this problem or know how to store new words?

Txting on my 8600 was so much easier, other than the fact that the keypad had no raised divisions between buttons. It did smileys automatically in t9, does the krzr do those? It would also even store words like be4 and combinations like that...