N97 SMS Memory

Hi!
My Nokia N97 failed yesterday so I had to hard reset it and than reinstall the operating software. I am now re-programming all the settings on my phone, but for some reason, in SMS, I can not set the memory to E: Mass Memory, it will only stay on C: Phone Memory or F: Card, however I had a bunch of important SMSs on my phone on the E: Memory, and now I cant access them. Any idea on how to solve this?? Do I need to reinstall the phone software AGAIN?? I press the E: Mass Memory link and the phone just acts as if nothing happened.
Can someone please help me?
Thanks

@hadimassa: Thanks very much for the tip. There are indeed a lot of active processes. Most of them seem to be there with nothing you can do about it. Some of them were due to applications I installed but did not think of being loaded (e.g. Truphone).
But none of these could explain the out of memory problems I was having. I really had only a few applications running that I could influence
I have fixed the problem, at least temporarily: I have removed the battery from the phone, reinserted the battery and the N97 feels as snappy as immediately after upgrading to the v20 firmware. And the memory issues have gone. I hope the memory issue does not come back. But it feels like some applications are not freeing memory and the N97 doesn't interfere.
Regards, Jean-Marc

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