Crash to bootloader issue

[Velvis]

I have been playing around with various roms (kitchen,non kitchen, and the newest official HTC).

I flashed back to a kitchen rom and installed and started playing with iFone and PocketCM. I had been using it for a few hours and I was trying to add a contact picture in PocketCM and the device froze. I soft-reset the device and got the tricolor bootloader screen. I couldnt remember what the hard-reset combo was, so I was kinda stuck. (I am not sure if it would have helped anyways).

I tried removing the battery and softreset about 4-5 times over the course of an hour or so and continued to get the bootloader screen, but figured I'd just have to reflash once I got back home.

Well when I did get home the phone started up as normal (it had not been hard reset as all my data was there).

Has anyone seen behavior like this? or suggest how to prevent it and recover from it? (aside from it magically doing it itself)

Thanks,
Chris