T720 Menu and Internet Navigation?

I have a Motorola T720 on Rogers service. It appears that Rogers have
tweaked the menu some, so that some of the things that appear in the
user's manual for the phone are unavailable. Is there any way to
change this?

Specifically, I have a relatively simple need. I want to navigate to
a URL directly. The way the phone works now, I have to start a
browser (very slow) and then either navigate through a web menuing
system (very slow), enter the URL (very tedious), or select it from a
list of bookmarks. This last option may not seem that bad, but it's
still quite slow, considering that the browser has to load and begin
downloading the home page before I have access to my favorites menu.

So, quite simply, all I want is to have some kind of shortcut that
will open the browser to a specific page. That's not too much to ask,
is it? The menu in the user's manual would allow it, but....

Any help would be much appreciated!!!

Thanks!
Brad.