Another update on my replacement phone--2 months now, and it's been pretty smooth and stable.  It did glitch out a little bit with the most recent minor update (a couple of freezes and reboots), but then seems to have righted itself again, which adds to my suspicion that this phone (and possibly Android phones in general?) does not like to be updated.

Battery life continues to be decent (I have a 1750 mAh Seidio battery)--I typically keep mobile network and GPS off unless I need it, and update things like Weather and Calendar manually, so that the phone isn't wasting energy trying to update on a schedule.  Performance continues to be snappy, so if any of the Verizon killer crapps like CityID are causing slowdown, I haven't noticed it.

Overall, I still really like this phone, and hope I don't have any of the various problems that others on this forum commonly report.