Windows Phone Thoughts: Windows Mobile 2003 Alarm Troubles

After reading through most of this thread and all of this thread, my head is spinning. What the heck is going on here? I've known about reminder issues since back in the Pocket PC 2002 days, but things seem to have gotten worse with Windows Mobile 2003, haven't they? Or perhaps people are simply talking about it more.

Lately I've been using a new Pocket PC every few months, and I keep seeing the same problem over and over: erratic alarm behaviour. On my 2215 I'd have this strange issue where I'd turn on the device and the past few reminders would trigger all at once, and they'd draw very slowly on the screen. It's not strictly related to Pocket Plus as some have suggested - the above thread on Tekguru shows that many other developers are trying to tackle the issue, because it also affects their products. For Pocket Plus owners, I suggest going into the options and disabling the repeating alarm feature. This will stop Pocket Plus from interacting with the reminder functionality in any way - see if it helps. At the moment I'm using my Pocket PC with no third party software installed just to see if the situation improves at all.

Just because I'm curious, how many of you have had alarm reminder problems with Windows Mobile 2003, regardless of what third party software you've installed?