I have purchased the bold cradle, but I don't know how to set it so that in bedside mode, in teh cradle, it never flashes the led, from what I can tell, it lights up the led once its fully charged - this is way too bright!

put in cradle, when the clock come click on the BB key, and chose enter bedside mode

go to clock, hit manu go to options move down in options and set the bedside mode like u want to have the led off or radio off etc

You can also choose to put into Bedside mode automatically when charging (which is the same effect you will get when you dock it in the cradle). Go to Clock > Options and change the ones under "Clock" and "Bedside Mode". Under Bedside mode, you have the option to disable the LED, disable the radio and dim the screen. These options will impact the "Go into bedside mode when charging" option under the "Clock section".

or just press B to enter bedside mode