Argh, lost data, can someone help

A week ago or so I updated to the iOS 4 on my iPhone 3GS. Pretty smooth update, everything seemed to be working, expect I had zero data services. Email, web, etc, all down. Voicemail did not work, SMS did, but MMS did not. I am on AT&T.
I did some googling around, and found that some others were experiencing this. Apparently it is suspected that this can be caused by jailbreaking your phone. I have never jailbroken my phone, and have no desire to. After playing with friends phones who have, there is no reason, and I feel it is a sub par experience. Though the fee for tethering has be considering it.
I had to do a complete wipe of the phone; starting over. Any time I restore my data, the problem comes back, no data.
I have mostly come to terms with it, entered in my passwords again, was not that into games, so not a lot was lost. There are two things I want back.
One thread of SMS messages, and the state of my timer in the clock.
Does anyone know how I can get just those two features back? I have had no future communications with the one contact I want to restore the SMS settings with, so there should be no merging needing to be done.
The timer is an experiment I was running since the first day of the release of the first gen iPhone, and I can not start that experiment over, until Apple invents a real Time Machine for me to go back in time.
I am on a Macintosh. Any suggestions?
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One approach is to go from a backup of your Home folder. I assume you do backups. (:-> Look in there for the folder "yourHomefolder" -> Library -> Safari. In that folder will be the older copy of your bookmarks.plist, which you can open with TextEdit or another text editor. Lots of gobbledeygook in there (non-ASCII fields), but you can used a Find commend in TextEdit to find the text of your now lost bookmark.
If you have no backup, look at the current copy of this file on your disk, which may still have the now deleted stuff (if you haven't closed Safari already since the bookmark was trashed).
And if those don't help click on the bookmarks symbol in the Bookmarks Bar (the book symbol, left-had side), then on the left margin click "History", about the fifth item down from the top. Any history that still exists is there, and you can use Find (Apple-F) to locate any visits you made to that site.
HTH (hope this helps)..
--Terminalman
G5 Dual 1.8 Mac OS X (10.4)
G5 Dual 1.8 Mac OS X (10.4)

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