I've rebooted, pulled battery for 30 minutes, manually switched from TouchWiz to TouchWiz Easy and back, booted into recovery mode and wiped cache partition. Works for a while then Google takes over Home button again!
I finally figured out my "notification" problem isn't notifications but the fact that the messenger app doesn't have sounds or vibrate IN THE APP. Am I insane and just THINK that before the update it used to have a nice little sound and vibration when I sent or received a message while I actually had the message open? I can't find anything online about in-app messenger sounds or sent/received sounds. Call me crazy but I really like to have a sound when I am in a conversation in case I sit my phone down and don't turn it off for the 3 minutes my screen timeout is set for. Is there a better messenger app that includes sounds when you send and receive texts?