Does anyone know if its possible to eliminate the "Slide to unlock" feature? I know it's a nice security feature but I'd prefer just pressing the home or sleep button to gain immediate access to the phone.

I agree, a utility to skip the "slide to unlock" thing would be nice. It was cool seeing that the first couple of times but gets kinda ridiculous after a while for those of us who don't use passcodes anyway.

I don't know of any utility that can do that, but I'm fairly new to the iphone.