[hotwired34]

Alright...I think I have finally put my finger on the missing back button. It seems like the exe file HTC_PhoneCanvas_VGA is the culprit. There is a .lnk to it in the Startup folder. If I run it...the first time, I get a dialog box that shows with the title phcanVGAWndClass and the message is "Terminated..." . If I go to the phone now, the back button is missing but the phone works fine....Now, if I run it again, nothing echos to the screen and the phone's back button is there.

So...what I did was copy the shortcut from the startup folder into my utilities folder in programs so when I notice that the phone's back button is missing, I just run it and it returns.