3GB of "Other" Category

I have been having problems with my other category.  I don't really know what it is, but I have cleared all data from safari, I have no notes, no messages, only 150 or so contacts (that's really nothing), no pictures, no music, and 1.68 gb of apps on my phone.
(I took off all the media to see if I could fix the problem)
I have 3gb of "Other"
From here, I saved my phone to backup and did a restore, after restoring I'm still back at 3gb of Other with 1.68gb of app data and I honestly just have no idea anymore.  I've tried every single solution and I cannot fix or even get this to go down.  I would start from perfect scratch but I don't know how to save the list of contacts because I don't want to lose those numbers.
Any ideas?

Backing up, Updating and Restoring   http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414
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