I had that problem a while back with some of the custom roms. The best solution that seemed to work was taking out the sim card and putting it back in. I think I also blew into the sim card slot a little, to relive the ol' NES days.
I would definitely like to enter this.
I would probably call some of my old college buddies. We all spread way out after school, and even with stuff like facebook, it'd be nice to get them all on a conf call or something.