Yes fairly similar.
It happens after a few days or so of light browsing with opera, heavy media player use and fairly heavy phone use. This is my normal usage pattern for the last 2 years or more.

This bug has happened on occasion in the past but it has more recently gone from happening maybe every month or more to 1-2 days.

It seems to be related to usage as if I reboot on a Friday the bug will not appear until Tuesday-Wednesday. If I reboot on a Monday it will be normally reappear by Wednesday.
I generally use the media player and phone applications a lot less of a weekend.

hildon-home starts popping up in top with about 50% CPU every minute or so. If you leave it for another day or so, eventually you notice heavy battery drain and hildon-home not responding messages under heavy load. At this point hildon-home is using 99% for long periods of time.

Although I am interested in your workaround my aim is to populate enough information to find the problem and get it fixed.