A few hours after reporting that the 3rd party apps were crashing upon launch I decided to go back and launch every application again. This time none of them crashed!

The only thing that was different in the state of the phone from hours earlier was that I did a software update to AOL Radio app prior to relaunching all the other apps. I have read other posts reporting that apps are crashing after 2.01 was installed. I’ll have to look around to see if this mysterious recovery from this behavior was noticed by anyone else.

I wonder if by updating the AOL app it could have somehow corrected a bad state that the iPhone was in.