That's still really not a good thing that you have to boot tethered just to use your phone..........I highly recommend that you restore ans SETUP AS NEW and most certainly NOT from any backup of any kind.............Not from iTunes or iCloud..................And make sure you are on the latest iOS.............Which is 5.0.1......But if iTunes ask you to update to 5.0.2 or 5.1..DO not so or you will be stuck there with no jailb reak unless you saved blobs..........I recxommend you use iFazith version 1.4.1......Tiny Umbrella works too, but I like iFaith better........