With older palm pilots, you can get caught up in what is commonly referred to as a "Digitizer Loop". This is really annoying if you happen to need to do a Hard Reset (because of lost battery power and sketchy caps, for instance), and you're stuck, in palm setup mode, because of the stupid digitizer that will not go away.

An interweb search will reveal mostly fruitless results. Vague suggestions to try various free and shareware digitizers that get caught up in the same loop, or worse yet, torrid tales of returns, return returns and rereturn returns of various palm mXXX handhelds.

Eek.

Funnily enough however, the solution is really simple.

Just do a soft reset that bypasses the startup. Just hold down the up button while hitting reset at the back of your device. Bam. No more digitizer loop. Of course, if you happen to hit the digitizer preference...