IPhone won't boot past white apple

I have quite a few (over 30) applications installed on my iphone. I deleted a bunch of useless ones on the phone yesterday, and then went into settings and noticed the phone seemed to be stalled (settings screen was blank for a long time). After awhile, I reset the phone by holding down the home button and the standby until the white apple appeared.
The problem is that the phone never got past the white apple. Even after waiting an extremely long time. And even after trying numerous hard resets. Furthermore, the phone does not show up in iTunes when connected to my mac, but iPhoto does launch automatically to pull in photos. But since I can't get the phone to show up in itunes, I can not even restore it.
I am running an original iPhone, with firmware 2.0 (havent upgraded to 2.0.1 yet).
does anyone know of a way to snap my phone out of this? Some special key combination that goes beyond the standard hard reset i have been trying? Is there some way to force it into a "recovery mode" or something like that?

I have a first-gen iPhone that worked near flawlessly for a year, until I upgraded the iPhone to 2.0. Ever since, I have been dismayed with Apple's lack of progress fixing my issue. My phone has quite a few apps as well. I also fear using them, because occasionally (about twice per week for way too many weeks) it will break down and not get past the white Apple logo. It always requires a restore in DFU mode to get it working again. All of my apps work until the kill switch is turned. It happens at random intervals and with no particular app. It is not a hardware problem. I have met the same results with another guaranteed-working iPhone. I have restored w/ and w/o backups- no luck.
Can anyone recommend a way to work around this problem? This is my phone and I can't have to do this so often.
Thanks.
P.S. It's worth noting that I get about 400 errors on every sync. The 3 that are repeated every few seconds are the following (copied from the console):
8/16/08 6:55:18 PM [0x0-0x1e61e6].com.apple.iTunes[3712] MobileDevice: AMDeviceStopSession: Could not stop session with device: kAMDSuccess
8/16/08 6:55:18 PM [0x0-0x1e61e6].com.apple.iTunes[3712] Could not send message size 277
8/16/08 6:56:18 PM [0x0-0x1e61e6].com.apple.iTunes[3712] Could not send message size 358
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