Finally had 5 minutes of spare time to tinker. I changed the quest's OBJECTIVE POP system to allow me to just insert my own text rather than rely on pre-defined quest objective lines. So if I just run a call of POP_Task("Hunt for the Golden Quack"), then it will deliver that message in the style used for the Objectives Pop.
Simple
Up is down, left is right and sideways is straight ahead. - Cord "Circle of Iron", 1978 (written by Bruce Lee and James Coburn... really...)