I can't locate the version number either. As for the Note quirk, I've notice the same thing myself several occasions (but I make a lot of notes). It's only a minor annoyance and easily worked around, so it never really bothered me. I either type in the blind and press done; or drag the screen up so I can see what I'm typing. I just tried to reproduce it, and was finally able to. The very first time I attemted it, it behaved just the way you described. But then the next half-a-dozen times, it worked fine. I even returned to the home screen and turned off the iPod Touch, but each time it worked fine. Then the final time, when I returned to the home screen, I opened another app, closed it, opened another app, closed it, returned to Mantis and when I attempted to add a note, it behaved in the buggy way (as you described) again.