How can I reduce the amount of space taken up by "other" on my phone?

In iTunes my iPhone (4s) shows up with 2.81 gb designated "other." I'd really REALLY like to use this space for other things and want to get rid of the "other." I've read a lot of posts about restoring your phone (which I did) and I also tried deleting old texts/videos and have less than 100 photos on my phone to begin with. I used some outside software at the suggestion of a blog post on this to delete some kind of extra music file and it worked!... for a bit. It showed my "other" files at 220 mb and freed up a lot of space on the phone. When I tried to play music on it, however, the songs didn't work. So I hooked my phone back up to my computer, resynced the audio files, and now my 2.81 gb of "other" are back. I've wasted almost 3 hours on this and have nothing to show for it. What can I do?!

I'll try this again starting it as new, but when I restored it before (after deleting all the apps and music off it) it didn't help. Thanks for the suggestion!

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