[drgibson]

Just a quick update... after messing around I had an idea... I connected the USB headphones so I could actually do a soft reset that works... But this time, instead I held down the power/cam when I did it (so it would normally load the boot loader...) my thinking was that it might trick it into not loading it. Sure enough, it worked. Now when I hit soft reset, it does just that. No more boot loader unless I hold down those buttons.

Very strange... like the phone got tricked into thinking the buttons were always pressed down on restart.

Anyways, hopefully this will help others that might come across this issue.