IPhone 3GS Frrezing, Deleting stuff, acting strange

My 3GS has been acting strange the past week or two. It is doing so many strange things that I'll just bullet and list them....
It freezes for 5-10 seconds, randomly. Can't swipe to a new screen, press and buttons or anything. Then returns to normal.
Push an App button and it's like I held in the button to delete or move icons.....
Sometimes pushing an App button doesn't load the App. Takes a few times to get it to open.
When typing a text or email, it adds periods in randomly. If I hit the delete button, it will sometimes just delete the text I just wrote.
There's a tiny gap at the top between the clock, battery, etc.... some black space. Sometimes, the upper "bar" moves to the very top of the screen leaving no black space. Not sure if I explained that too well.
I replaced the battery a few months ago because it would just shut off when it reached 50-60%. Others have had the same problem. Replacement went really smooth and it worked fine for at least a month or so.... so I doubt that's the culprit.
I have turned it off and on a few times. Synced with iTunes a few times and no luck. I have not restored yet. Don't really know what Restore does but I am going to read up on it.
Any other ideas or is anyone having similar issues? I search and found nothing....
Thanks!
Jerrod

My 3Gs is freezing on certain contacts (growing number and I believe they're all ATT customers.
To make matters worse...my daughter is a text addict... And most of the other texters just won't pay attention to my pleas that they calmer e.mail me, until the daughter's Saturday Wedding is over... So I can make an appt. At an Apple retailer to have a "genius" help me with this!!!! Everyone coming in for the rehearsal and Wedding is testing me! And I cannot open their message, much less reply via this form of messaging!
I'm so unable to mess with this right now-
I called ATT tech support and we tried a couple of possible options to fix this and wound up with something that was SO convoluted involving my PowerBook ( which was at home where I was NOT!) and a week later, here am, without reliable testing! Did you get any results in your problem?!?

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