In Android 2.2 (Froyo) there's been some talk about Task Manager not working as well as it has in the past. With this post I'm confirming that this is the case. The short answer is Google has made some changes that made ALL task managers less effective not just mine.
The detailed reason is there was functionality in the Android SDK that allowed developers to shutdown packages (or apps) that was limited. Android still allows apps to shutdown other apps but the ones being shutdown cannot have any attachments to the system such as alarms, active services, etc. Android still has the functionality to shutdown apps but this has been hidden from 3rd party developers and locked down with security so we can't touch it.
The only way to address this change is by attempting to kill the app. If it doesn't get killed the Task Manager will send you to a page that has these special privileges to kill the app.
I'm sorry that it's cumbersome but this is the best solution out there for now.
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