Alarm sounds even in silent mode!

Hi,

I have a 3GS. I'm a bit hard of hearing, and I have an alarm set for evening hours. Yesterday I was in a movie theater. I was careful to flip the switch to silent mode, but the alarm went off anyway. LOUD, because I don't hear too well.

I silenced it as fast as I could, and the snooze button was the first button I could get to. Then put in the password to make sure it was reset. I put the phone back in my pocket, and the darn thing went off again! The button I pushed was snooze, and evidently you can't silence it after you pressed snooze?

In the manual, I found out that the alarm pays no attention to the silent switch. What nonsense is this? You give us a silent switch and then have a permanent feature of the phone totally ignore it? It was like a bomb went off in that theater, and the second time around was 10 times worse.

Somebody please tell me there's a way around this. I browsed some of the other alarm clocks, but they don't seem to care about this problem.

I need the loud alarm so I can hear it, and I need the silent switch even more.

Thanks.