After update to iOS5 I have 8GB of "Other" on my iPhone 4.

I upgraded to iOS5 and after the lengthy restore process I found over 8GB of "Other" on the iPhone. In fact, iTunes now tells me that there is over a gigabyte of excess stuff on the phone (although it does continue to backup and sync normally).
Any clue what this could be and how do I get rid of it?
I've whittled down the songs and videos I have on the phone to get some free space, but it's still nearly full. Restarting the phone doesn't help. Neither does a forced shutdown.

Thanks for this thread folks. I was able to fix mine with my own mix of all the ideas. My 32GB iPhone 3GS upgraded to iOS 5 suddenly had a bloated Other category of 8.1GB, overflowing the available storage.
First I tried unchecking everything in the Sync window, including music. The I shut doow iTunes, unplugged the USB and powered down the iPhone. Retstarted iPhone and iTunes and synced. Now Other category was HALF of my available storage with nothing else on the iPhone. No music either.
Then I went to the iPhone Settings » General » Reset » Erase and Reset and when I went to restore the phone from an earlier backup, "Other" was now .63gb — what a relief.
Thanks!
(I am curious why the disparity in "other" sizes reported here... Anyone know WHAT is in "Other?")

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