Fresh install mountain lion

I am having to many crashes on my Mountain Lion (upgraded from Snow Leopard) and want to reinstall Mountain Lion and see if this doesn't work. My Mac crashed about once or twice a week and most recently this caused my Outlook for Mac to be corrupted. Tied to rebuild DB but it is not working.
How can I fresh install Mountain Lion removing all from my HDD and recovering my data safely?

Found my old Mail, so basically back to normal.
However had two crashes since I've done everything and now I am concerned that my Mac issue might be hardware related:
Interval Since Last Panic Report:  98 sec
Panics Since Last Report:          1
Anonymous UUID: 23CD7216-4D50-7B4A-8707-9F5D58539F0F
Thu Oct 11 08:09:45 2012
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff7f84da8b25): NVRM[0/1:0:0]: Read Error 0x00000100: CFG 0xffffffff 0xffffffff 0xffffffff, BAR0 0xd2000000 0xffffff80a3c66000 0x0a5480a2, D0, P3/4
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff80800daf80 : 0xffffff800461d626
0xffffff80800daff0 : 0xffffff7f84da8b25
0xffffff80800db080 : 0xffffff7f84ea24b3
0xffffff80800db0e0 : 0xffffff7f84ea2527
0xffffff80800db150 : 0xffffff7f851b7853
0xffffff80800db290 : 0xffffff7f84ec8659
0xffffff80800db2c0 : 0xffffff7f84db28da
0xffffff80800db370 : 0xffffff7f84dadfac
0xffffff80800db560 : 0xffffff7f84daf1d8
0xffffff80800db630 : 0xffffff7f85e1345e
0xffffff80800db6f0 : 0xffffff7f85e4400f
0xffffff80800db770 : 0xffffff7f85e28b4a
0xffffff80800db7d0 : 0xffffff7f85e29415
0xffffff80800db820 : 0xffffff7f85e2980f
0xffffff80800db8c0 : 0xffffff7f85e2a239
0xffffff80800db900 : 0xffffff7f85de5e81
0xffffff80800dba80 : 0xffffff7f85e267fe
0xffffff80800dbb40 : 0xffffff7f85de498a
0xffffff80800dbba0 : 0xffffff8004a65bc9
0xffffff80800dbbc0 : 0xffffff8004a67170
0xffffff80800dbc20 : 0xffffff8004a64b8f
0xffffff80800dbd70 : 0xffffff80046981e1
0xffffff80800dbe80 : 0xffffff8004620aed
0xffffff80800dbeb0 : 0xffffff8004610448
0xffffff80800dbf00 : 0xffffff800461961b
0xffffff80800dbf70 : 0xffffff80046a5b16
0xffffff80800dbfb0 : 0xffffff80046ced53
      Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
com.apple.NVDAResman(8.0)[A4C53A36-22B6-3075-82B9-9DE612A9C015]@0xffffff7f84d41 000->0xffffff7f85043fff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.7.2)[B1B77B26-7984-302F-BA8E-544DD3D75E73]@0xffff ff7f84caf000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.3.5)[86DDB71C-A73A-3EBE-AC44-0BC9A38B9A44]@0xff ffff7f84d2d000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.5)[803496D0-ADAD-3ADB-B071-8A0A197DA53D]@0 xffffff7f84cea000
com.apple.nvidia.nv50hal(8.0)[9F3D09B5-3158-3D9E-BDA3-E71576AAD3B7]@0xffffff7f8 5051000->0xffffff7f85373fff
dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(8.0.0)[A4C53A36-22B6-3075-82B9-9DE612A9C015]@0xffffff7f84d 41000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.7.2)[B1B77B26-7984-302F-BA8E-544DD3D75E73]@0xffff ff7f84caf000
         com.apple.GeForce(8.0)[2E56ED9A-D848-3795-9E52-56BABDC9000C]@0xffffff7f85dd8000 ->0xffffff7f85e9afff
dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(8.0.0)[A4C53A36-22B6-3075-82B9-9DE612A9C015]@0xffffff7f84d 41000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.3.5)[86DDB71C-A73A-3EBE-AC44-0BC9A38B9A44]@0xff ffff7f84d2d000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.7.2)[B1B77B26-7984-302F-BA8E-544DD3D75E73]@0xffff ff7f84caf000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.5)[803496D0-ADAD-3ADB-B071-8A0A197DA53D]@0 xffffff7f84cea000
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: WindowServer
Mac OS version:
12C60
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 12.2.0: Sat Aug 25 00:48:52 PDT 2012; root:xnu-2050.18.24~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 69A5853F-375A-3EF4-9247-478FD0247333
Kernel slide: 0x0000000004400000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff8004600000
System model name: MacBookPro6,2 (Mac-F22586C8)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 590434395070
last loaded kext at 55988573983: com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor   1.9.5d0 (addr 0xffffff7f86a31000, size 36864)
last unloaded kext at 254906129098: com.apple.driver.AppleUSBUHCI          5.2.5 (addr 0xffffff7f85637000, size 65536)
loaded kexts:
com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor   1.9.5d0
com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC           1.60
com.apple.driver.AGPM        100.12.69
com.apple.filesystems.autofs            3.0
com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyHIDDriver     122
com.apple.driver.AppleHDA 2.3.1f2
com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient          3.5.10
com.apple.GeForce    8.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelHDGraphics    8.0.0
com.apple.iokit.BroadcomBluetoothHCIControllerUSBTransport            4.0.9f33
com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyDriver           2.3.1f2
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com.apple.driver.AppleIntelHDGraphicsFB            8.0.0
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com.apple.iokit.IOUserEthernet       1.0.0d1
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager            4.0.9f33
com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X      7.0.0
com.apple.driver.ApplePolicyControl          3.2.11
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com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib  1.0.0d1
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com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient            3.5.1
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com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage           2.2.2
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com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub      5.2.5
com.apple.driver.AirPort.Brcm4331           602.15.22
com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort     2.4.1
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com.apple.driver.AppleSmartBatteryManager      161.0.0
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com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient          196.0.0
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com.apple.security.quarantine        2
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Model: MacBookPro6,2, BootROM MBP61.0057.B0F, 2 processors, Intel Core i5, 2.4 GHz, 4 GB, SMC 1.58f15
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics, Intel HD Graphics, Built-In, 288 MB
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M, NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M, PCIe, 256 MB
Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 2 GB, DDR3, 1067 MHz, 0x80AD, 0x484D54313235533642465238432D47372020
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AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0x93), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.106.98.81.22)
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Network Service: Ethernet, Ethernet, en0
Serial ATA Device: Hitachi HTS545032B9SA02, 320,07 GB
Serial ATA Device: MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-898
USB Device: hub_device, 0x0424  (SMSC), 0x2514, 0xfa100000 / 2
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