mine was stuck on the boot loader, which the apex forum tells you to use step 4 (the "let it time out" approach).
the problem was, mine was receiving a check-sum error, stack can no be lower than zero, etc, and the APEX name was renamed to some *$^&%*(&^^)(*! symbol name. it was f'd.
mine was actually corrupted and I had to delete the registry to start again.
