Hmm widgets would make sense, i have mediaplayer, dataplan, trasmitter on/off and 9 icon widgets (contacts, phone etc), it's always hildon desktop which grinds to a halt so it all ties in. I've run top hundred of times, always to find maybe 7% cpu use at most.

I heard that hildon desktop didn't reset after reboot? That you had to run another command to fully reset it as it keeps it's state? Rebooting the phone itself gives me about 5 mins performance bonus, but it gets back rather quickly.

Thanks for the info on flashing, i will sweat it out in this thread for a bit to see if anyone else has any less drastic answers if not flashing is the only option.