To add to stability I have found that the less, the better with Kitchen. The more crap you load up may not be necessarily stable. So far I am running my 20273 pretty lean and it is running great. I haven't had any stability issues to speak of. But I made sure to put in the nueTools.
I hate the idea of having to hard reset all the time but after a while you get used to just backing things up and then restoring them. A good program I found is called PimPPCBackup and it is amazing for backing up contacts, messages, and other things. I don't think I could live without it.