Phone 'forcing' you back to the Home Screen

I've been using my phone the past three days, and myself as well as a friend have had the same problem, and it's software related.
You will be doing something, just now I was flipping through albums in cover flow, and you get sent back to the home screen. You're not touching the home button, not even near it, and you're forced back to the home screen.
I did this, went back to the iPod, and was forced back again. No matter what I did I was instantly pushed back to the home screen until I turned off the phone and turned it back on.
This happens intermittently and seems to be something software related... it's either that or something with the 'Home' button...
Anyone else experiencing this?

I think this means that the app crashed. I've had this happen multiple times in Safari and Google Maps.
To be sure, do this: try a sync of your phone with iTunes, and if iTunes asks you if it's okay to send diagnostic info to Apple, then that's what happened.
If iTunes does not ask you if it's okay to send diagnostic info to Apple, then it's a different problem.
This was also a big problem when the Intel-based Macs first came out, and it has gotten much better. Now we again have the apps compiled for a new platform, so there will be a few months of Apple getting the bugs worked out.
I would bet that stabilizing these bugs will be a very high priority for Apple, and I bet we will see a software update for the iPhone within a few weeks.

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Phone 'forcing' you back to the Home Screen

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