General Mail settings won't open and Exchange account won't recieve mails

Here is a strange problem:
The Exchange mail account stopped working on my iPad after several month os working beutifully.
The issues:
New mails won't arrive, it looks like the exchange account is looping forever when trying to get new mails. (The network indicator is spinning.)
I can no longer open the "Mail, Contacts, Calendars" setings, when clicked it marks the settings row but does not open any settings. After some minutes the Setting application ends and the iPad returns to the home screen.
I've tried:
Restarting the iPad - no help,
"hard" restart (hold down home+power for 10sec) - no help,
Upgrading from 3.2.1 to iOS 3.2.2 - no help,
restoring from an old backup (Edit: to be clear: I reset to factory settins and then restored to an old backup) - no help.
The last thing I tried was restoring the iPad to factory settings and register it in iTunes as a new iPad (thus completely reverting all changes) - this removed the Exchange account and when I re-added it, everything worked as it should.
However... I want my things I have in the backup... Anyone has an idea of either how to fix this issue without deleting everything on the iPad or how to restore a backup without getting the Exchange account setup?
Is there a "back-door" to removing an email account (or all accounts, or even all settings)?
Or perhaps a backup setting where you can choose what parts of a backup to restore? (So I can skip the exchange mail account settings.)
Message was edited by: marha007

(My Apple account got messed up??!)
I decided to take the not so very nice road forward.
I reset my iPad to factory settings and restored it as a new iPad.
Then manually re-added all content I managed to backup (photos using a image transfer tool, the rest "pen and paper" style).
This way, the exchange account was recreated (exactly the same as before) and now it works again, just as it did before the hickup.
I still have a lot of info lost from the backup (game saves etc), so if anyone knows how to extract such things from the iPad backup that would be great!
Hope you get your issue solved eventually! The "hard way" worked for me but the whole situation has made me lower the iPad score, I don't love it as much as I did before this happend....

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