Iphone 4 randomly unresponsive home button

Hey everyone,
I have an iphone4 16 AT&T that I have had for about 8 months now. For the last 4 months the home button has been randomly non-responsive. Sometimes it works great, other times it takes 2-3 clicks. I have never dropped it, gotten it wet, or abused it in any way. I restored it and updated to 4.3.3, and set it up as a new phone, and the issue still showed up. This is also a non-jailbroken phone.
My dilemna is about what to do- does anyone have any insight? I am hesitant about taking it in to the genius bar and having the issue not occur and looking like an idiot. However I am afraid that if I don't take it in my warranty will be up in less than 4 months and the home button might stop responding completely. Please if anyone has any knowledge on this let me know.
-John

Hey Eric thanks for the quick response,
Unfortunately I already tried this many times, including holding down both the home and power button and doing a hard restart. The issue still comes right back, and occurs even if I turn the phone on and run nothing but let it sit for a while and dont use it.

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