ScaredyCat, Fuelly developers and support personnel do read the forums. I don't know if they see what I, as a moderator, see, but for me your post was unfortunately buried under hundreds of spam posts. Regular users can't see them because we deleted them, but they still bury stuff for us. We're working on the spam issue.
As for SMS, it's working according to this user's post two days ago:
http://www.fuelly.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15294