Okay. I wanted to cherry pick apps, but I guess I can do that from the package list I generated through dpkg. This time I'll keep better notes and see if I can isolate what the problem is/was...

My plan exactly. But as I was trying to tar up the home directory, I found that many, many apps write to hidden directory under /home/user. So I was thinking something under one of those might be the problem...But since I don't have an exact date when the problem occurred, I can't see what was installed around that time or what changes I made.

One of the changes I will probably make is to set up logging. It appears sysklogd is available on the N900 (I would prefer rsyslog or even syslog-ng), so I may set up logging. I'll see what others have done.

Thanks,
--vr