[timothydonohue]

make sure that the htc today screen task manager is not set to kill everything by tapping x. the phone was originally designed to run some things in the background (your common programs), but the problem is that it was running EVERYTHING in the background. if you set your phone to 'hold to kill' (or whatever it is called), rather than tap, the programs you use often can run in the background and won't take forever to open.

similarly, if you have it set at 'hold to kill' (which is what is defaulted), you may have four hundred things running in the background if you are only tapping the button.

i would look at these things first.