No need to go to that trouble to recreate the old Quick Launch bar on the task bar. The Quick Launch bar is still built into Win 7, but deactivated as standard. I have it working in Win 7 for apps that I don't use every day, so don't want in the quick launch always there icons.

To reactivate the Quick Launch bar in Windows 7 just follow the simple steps at: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975784