Alarm notification comes up every day even though I deleted the alarm

Question

I use my iPhone 4 as an alarm clock in the morning.  I use the built-in alarm clock app instead of a nother because it seems to deal best wtih ignoring the silent switch, so I'm more likely to wake up.
My schedule changed, so I disabled an alarm and created another.  However, I still get notifications from the disabled alarm.  I even tried deleting the alarm, and I still get the notification dialog box (NOTE the alarm doesn't sound, I just get the system modal dialog box) every day.  What's worse, the notification comes up 5 or 6 times every morning!  The same notification for the alarm I already deleted.
I went to the genius bar today, and the guy said I need to completely wipe my phone without restoring my data!!!!! Seriously?  Lose all my contacts, calendars, databases, etc and havey to re-enter them??  Really?
Ther'es got to be another solution.  I thought push notifications come from Apple, and aren't even triggered by the device anyway.  If that's the case the problem may be more on Apple's side than mine.
Thoughts?  Thanks.

Answer 1

I am wondering what you mean with the disk image that you mention and if that could cause the large backup size, especially if it is not a sparsebundle type image.
If you already have a separate partition on your HD, I would have moved the "iPhoto Library" file from your account's Pictures folder to that partition.
Then you would need to create a symbolic link (not an Alias) from there back to the Picture folders of the accounts that you want to share your iPhoto library with. You will of course also modify the access rights to allow the other account(s) to write to the library file.
I followed a slightly different approach on my Mac, where the "iPhoto Library" now is in the Shared Users folder (/Macintosh HD/Users/Shared) and I linked it back into my and another account via the Terminal app (e.g. "ln -s /Macintosh HD/Users/Shared/iPhoto Library /Macintosh HD/Users/me/Pictures").
The iPhoto automatically recognizes the library without any changes and you could read from and write to that library from multiple accounts.
This works perfectly fine for me and I never had trouble with large backups or corrupt data (at least not yet ;-).