Lol, its true! Seems the task killer also kills part of the alarm clock, hmm. Apparently you don't need a task killer, or so the people on the android forums say. Uninstalled mine so we'll see. Also my messaging problem is resolved, I had left the phone unlocked in my pocket and it created a draft message full of random chars to a number also consisting of random chars. Seems this crashed it whenever it tried to resolve it, or at least I assume that as its fine now I've deleted all 20 identical copies on my phone!
Now, whats a good (free) theme changer?