No "Voice Dialer" prompting after GB Update

Has anyone else had an issue with the stock "voice dialer" no longer working properly since the recent OTA to 2.3.4 (Gingerbread)? I have the same "won't appear / won't disappear" issue with the voicemail notifications, but I have one other issue, and that is that the voice dialer no longer works for me with voice prompting. I installed the Google text-to-speech data download (which I had to do last update as well), but it has not solved the problem. This is especially troublesome if I want to make a hands-free call with either my Bluetooth headset or the link in my car. I did the OTA on the first day (Wed late afternoon) and am now finding the broken voice dialing prompting to be a major hangup. I push the button and hear nothing. It will record what I say and then I have to push a button on the screen to confirm the dialing, but without voice prompting, I have no idea if it got the number correct or not. I read elsewhere from one other forum where an individual had this same problem and a few users suggested using the free "Vlingo" app from the Android Market instead. I gave it a try, but it behaves oddly with the bluetooth connection (e.g. prompting doesn't come through my headset, but the phone's speaker, though it will use the mic from the headset). I want my stock "voice dialer" to work again. Help anyone?

I solved my issue today within minutes of knocking at the VZW store's door to roll me back to Froyo. Ready folks?
1. Turn off your phone.
2. Remove the backing, battery, and sd card
3. Leave it sit for a bit
4. Reinsert the battery and sd card
5. Perform a restart (hold in the power button)
Phone restarted. Connected to the car bluetooth. Now pressing the button to dial brings the voice prompting for dialing back again!
I have restarted the phone since then and the setting has been retained. If you lost your voice dialing prompting, please try these steps. Don't know why they worked (when a restart did not), but it did!
Now I just have the broken VM prompt that everyone else is experiencing... Hope a fix is soon.

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