Multiple iPhone questions, no obvious answer

1. I have two versions of the same song available (and paid for) as ring tones. They are present on iTunes on the ringtone category but only one will download to the phone. The phone refuses the second version of the same song. I deleted the shorter version from my ringtone library, hoping that this would force the new ringtone to download. There isn't any way to delete a ringtone from the phone untethered from iTunes. I really want the longer version. Even if I check the specific ringtone from my iTunes library, it does not sync to the phone. I can't get rid of the shorter version no matter what I do. Any suggestions (these are iTune purchases, not some third party conversion).
2. I have "auto" email check turned OFF. Nevertheless, whenever my phone is logged onto a wi-fi network, it still checks for the email and dings at me incessantly. If I want to check email, I have it set for manual checking but it is still doing it automatically.
3. I have the latest (1.1.4) firmware on an otherwise virgin iPhone.
4. Is there any sequence of button pushes equivalent to a "reset" in the iPods. I don't want to restore the phone; I want to reset it.
Thanks for your help here.

Thank you for your help. Unfortunately, it didn't solve the problem I was after (the ringtone issue), but now I know how to do a soft reset.
I managed to solve the constant email being pushed to the phone. Turns out that the problem originated from my yahoo mail account. I didn't realize that an advanced preference available for yahoo is "auto push". In order to stop the email from coming to your phone, check to see if "auto push" is enabled. If so, note that it overrides the "manual" setting for email checking. That problem is fixed.
The only remaining issue is how to get the iphone to recognize two different ringtones from different parts of the same song. That problem continues to bug and vex me. Help!
An observation. To those of you waiting (impatiently) for a 3G iPhone. Don't expect miracles. I have a 3G verizon (EVDO) phone. The network speed for things like YouTube videos, for surfing the net, etc are simply not significantly different. Me. The only thing I'm waiting for is software 2.0 and the customized applications that will be available for the current phone.
Finally, you know a new iPhone is coming when one of the major case suppliers (Speck) is discounting its entire inventory of Gen 1 iPhone cases (50%). This can't be a coincidence and it does suggest that the new iPhones will layout buttons, or speakers, or some combination thereof differently, and will be slightly different sized. Not a novel revelation.

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These multiple accounts seem very confusing. I will try and sum up what I would like to be able to do:
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I have been tasked by my bosses to do some research on the possibility of using iPhones as a business communication, email and document device to be used by the senior management of my firm.
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