When I turn it on, the SE logo screen shows up, stays on, and I cannt turn it off again unless i remove the battery. It will not move from that SE intro screen. Any suggestions? Or know any place that can send the unit to for repars? Thanks.

probably a corrupted software.

may need to do a master reset and restore to an earlier working backup. you do have backups, right?

You can try flashing the phone from SE website. They have software updated service you can do online for free. All you need is a dss-25 cradle.