Important comment on No Battery Pull
Since that thread was closed, I had to post this here. I want to be sure less technical users are not confused by the erroneous info in that post.
I want to point out two things. First, for those phones implementing the soft-reset via Shift-Alt-Del, pushing it a second time is NOT a "hard-reset" as the uninformed poster stated. It merely performs a soft-reset again, just as pushing reset on your desktop PC again just begins the reset again. In fact, all this typically does in ground the voltage on one of the CPUs pins (the reset pin).
Second, it is a fact that if you interrupt said soft-reset (or any reset for that matter) often the OS will fail to boot with the App Error 200. This is NOT a sign of anything wrong with your phone. You will, however, find that to reset you will now have to do a battery pull to power down and clear memory to allow your device to boot without error.
FYI, the term "hard-reset" is actually mis-used in this context too. The term really means a forced reset to factory defaults. In fact, what you are doing is a "power-off", which requires a battery pull only when your power switch (if so equiped) is not working as the phone has locked up.
Finally, remember that RIM states clearly that when you update the device software, a re-boot can take up to 10 minutes! Typically, you should boot in under 4 minutes unless you updated your OS. I have personally seen it take as long as 8 minutes when I updated my OS.
Hope these facts were helpful to others who may unfortunately believe what they read in the previious post.
Patrick