IPhone random shut down- unable to restart

Hi
since i have upgraded to os 3.1, my iphone has "shut down" 3 times and been unable to turn on the phone unless i hold the home and sleep/wake button. I say "shut down" because i don't know if it does shut down. There is another post that says its a bug or something. I just want to to if this is a bug or something else. Heres a link to the topic: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10235780&#10235780 .
Thanks

Have you found any answers...The only one I found was that Safari had open windows close them on a blank page because someone said it will keep trying to update even when Safari is closed. I still can find out why it crashes and shuts down in the middle of reading e-mail or another application and then battery level changes dramatically upon restart.
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