So do I Brian...exact same problem...otherwise my iPad 2 looks like the day I bought it...not a scratch on it anywhere...so I am rather inclined to think that a hardware failure is NOT the root cause...instead I seem to suspect that when the latest version of IOS came out...this might be related...also not sure if my iPad 2 was configured to automatically upgrade it's firmware upon a new release and/or whether this was even an option...otherwise, I am stuck with a boat anchor now...the iPad store techs don't have any idea either...thanks