I have the Palm to auto lock after 3 hours of inactivity. Usually after 4 hours time I'm checking that I have found the Palm has crashed.
I just did a test by locking it and then a soft reset. The Palm asked for a password, hmmm so maybe the Palm crashed before the password locked. Not sure if this would be the same if after a Palm crash compared to my test.
I'm going to change it to lock after power is off, this will be a pain to have to type in the password every time I turn it on, but it's the only way to check after it crashes what happens.
Will report back after the next crash what happens.
Regards