Ipod touch sync: other? and restoring questions

for the past few months everytime i sync my ipod touch it shows the catagorey "other" next to the auido, photos, videos, apps, and free space. at the moment it reads "other 208 MB", which is taking up a lot of my space considering i have an 8GB and i typically use all of my space on it. so i just wondered what "other" is and how i can get rid of it.
i know that a few people have said that restoring the ipod will fix the problem. i would restore it except for the fact that i don't know if it will delete all of my notes, calendar dates, apps, map settings, safari bookmarks, my saved photos (especially because they don't sync to my computer, they're only on my ipod, and i have 203 saved photos), and other things like that.
thanks.

Reinstalled iTunes and tried a different USB port. I don't know which of those did the trick though.

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