Dreaded "orange" other space: Please help

Hi
My 8 gig non-jailbroken ipod touch has about 1 gig of "other" space, which if you don't know is basically ghost space. I read the only was to get rid of it it to restore my ipod touch. The problem is I have a few hundred apps and some of them have saved progress in games and recordings and stuff like that that I don't want to get rid of.
So basically I'm asking 3 questions.
1. Is there a way other than a software restore to get rid of "orange space"?
2. Can you do a software restore without removing progress in apps?
and 3. How exactly would you do that software restore?
Thank you so much in advance for I cannot download any data at all at this point. Nor can I update apps because even if I delete apps their space mysteriously turns to orange as well.

Teh BoBmeister wrote:
The orange space section is data that iTunes does not deem as iTunes data (movies, music apps etc). The orange data contains stuff like album artwork, contacts and the iPod file structure itself.
Hope this helped.
Actually I don't think that's very accurate and I can prove it. When I got my 8 giga byte ipod touch it had 7 giga bytes. This is because of the preloaded stuff. Also it just recently turned to orange space. Also whenever I delete something no space frees up. It just turns to orange too. And it is extremely improbable to accidently have exactly 0 kb of space left. I think this proves that orange space is ghost space.
Anyway back on topic. Can anyone answer any of the 3 Questions up top?

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