Thank you each for your posts, especially Nokia, for your first post. I'm quite certain that what is happening has nothing to do with my cell phone, which is brand new. I've not put that number out on the Net and there is no way the perp can know about it at this point, at least I don't think so.

catch: no, I haven't received any spam advertising a keychain device as you describe. Would like to hear more about that.

Is it possible there is no bug, that this weapon is even more far out that that? How can it be that that being online (via dialup) stopped all phone sounds but having no land line whatsoever now does not?