Clean install ios 4?

I have a jailbroken(ios4.2.1) iphone 3gs, and have no use for it being jailbroken. I'm having a few minor issues and would like to clean install the latest ios 4 update and not re jailbreak my phone. My biggest concerns in regards to data loss are text messages and photos. I have copied all photos to my mac(running leopard for now), and have backed up text messages, but many are work related and I would like to be able to restore them as well.  As far as applications go, I have them all baced up. Only 1 application is ajailbroken app, and I don't use it, so it won't matter to lose it.
    the second question with this: Is there a way to restore application data after the install so that my apps have their data back? I'm really only concerned with this on an app called moe's notes, and angry birds .
This is a temporary solution as I plan to preorder the iphone 5 once it is released, at that point I'll be starting fresh anyway. Thanks in advance for any help.

But when I asked at the apple store, they say that the issues I have would require that they start fresh using dfu mode or something and that it wuld erase everything and that I could not restore anything after as it would restore the issues I'm having.

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