Please , please , please , please put down the task killer .

Please, please, please, please put down the task killer. It isn't needed. The operating system knows how to handle and end applications just fine. Otherwise you are going to waste performance/battery because when you kill a task it is going to re-spawn back up. And if you killed a task that was writing to disk (or a database), then you could potentially create corruption. The only time you ever, ever, ever should kill a task is if it is obviously running wild or hung up (and usually when this happens you get the Force Close screen. If not, go to Settings --> Applications --> find your app and kill the task there).