Unable to kill apps, icons won't wiggle

Trying to kill apps; but, icons on bottom platform will not wiggle. Now, when I hold down "platform" buttons, x's in a black box will appear on random apps above platform - not all the apps, just a few here and there. Very weird. I have tried shutting down/re-booting several times; I have checked to make sure that none of my apps are paused anywher - short of that, is there anything else that I can do?
Thanks!

btw, closing or "killing" those apps doesn't do anything, esp. wrt battery since you're not killing anything in the first place - they are not running apps.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4211
the list is only a list of recently used apps.
what apps can run in the background is by design - only native apple apps and a few 3rd party apps for music, gps etc. all others hibernate and do not run in the background.

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