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Okay, I decided to see what this X30 could do and decided to download a variety of programs last week... for example Pacman, Pocket Breeze trial version, magic button, a birthday plug in, a calendar plug in, Theme Setter.

Well about 2 days later I started noticing problems with the Start and Windows drop down menu. First it looked like a pink tiger print, with black spots. Then the items on the drop down menu (only the words, not the pictures) started to look like they were duplicating... as if I were seeing double or triple, and getting progressively worse.
Then today the "Today" screen dispeared with no getting it back.

I uninstalled the trial Pocket Breeze and Theme Setter and tried a soft reset today. The today screen is back, but now the drop down menu is completey black except for the colored icons. I can still select anything and it works fine.

Does anyone have any idea what is going on and how I can fix it?
I realize I can do a hard reset, but I would still like to reinstall all of the items except the Pocketbreeze... and I suspect something with one of these downloads started these problems.