[HobbesIsReal]

To the best of my understanding the reason behind this is due to the way WM05 manages it's memory. In WM05 there are TWO copies of the registry.....one in the storage memory (like a harddrive on a desktop) and a copy of that in the RAM (which the live one being used and modified when you make changes). When you make changes to the Registry in WM05, you are actually making changes to the Registry in the RAM only. The OS then needs time or the opportunity to copy the modified reg in RAM to the permanent copy in Storage. It will do this at some point on it's own. But if you want it take effect immediately and you need to reset the phone to do that, you will need to use a Soft Reset software utility to do that as it will copy the RAM copy of the Registry back to the Storage and save it before it resets. If you manually reset right after you modify the Reg, the copy of the Reg in RAM never had a chance to update the permanent copy in Storage......so you loose your changes.