Terrain,
BOAC is right. I used to be able to get IMEI as you describe, but the upgrade to firmware 2.2 loses that capability.
Bush - on this "Galaxy Apollo" a long press on the menu button brings up something called "task manager", which just tells me what I last used the phone for. Maybe it does more......
As BOAC and I were the ones with the problem, and are now happy, maybe we should let this thread die.
It's a bloody good phone, does all that Apple expensive-phone does for about 1/4 of the price. PLUS - you can change batteries yourself, and add memory yourself, rather than pay Apple shareholders hundreds of pounds for an extra Gb or two.