Not even a complete erase will eliminate old typed email addresses!!!!!!!!!

In trying to get rid of the email addresses that automatically come up when I start typing in the "send-to" address while composing a message, I finally opted for a complete erase of my iPhone and a reset. _+*EVEN THIS DID NOT SOLVE THE PROBLEM!!!!!*+_ How in the world do I get rid of these entries? These are email addresses that I have only used once and will never use again, or ones I've mistyped and contain typos. This is highly frustrating. Since I did the erase and reset, these infernal entries are either staying stored on the phone or somewhere in the iPhone backup file that iTunes uses to restore my phone number after the complete erase.
Can anyone help????? PLEASE!!!???!?!?!?!?

The only thing you can do at this time to avoid using those "bad" addresses is to assign them a name like "BAD ADDRESS" in the contacts section. These are the steps to do it.
1. Using the bad email address send an email to it. This way you have it in your SENT folder of your email. Once you send it, go to the SENT box.
2. In the SENT box click on the mail you just sent. It now has an ">" inside the email address - now click inside the bad email ADDRESS - this will show you a screen where you can "add" it to a Contact....clicking add to or CREATE new (I created NEW and called it BAD ADDRESS) and now it will take you to the CONTACTS section of the iphone. Create a BAD ADDRESS contact. If you have a bunch of bad email addys make sure you have SENT an email to them so that you can add them to this BAD ADDRESS Contact Name and you can add them separately too - you must use the SENT folder, this add to Contacts cannot be done from any other email folder. However, this "fix" is only so that you don't accidently use them in your email. Creating the BAD ADDRESS contact allows your email to BOLD BAD ADDRESS in your email addresses so that you don't accidently use it. When you type the initial letter of the email addresses in the email they will still come up, accept now you've indicated that these are the BAD ADDRESSES.
Hopefully Apple will provide a fix for this, as we all make mistakes typing email addys and its not fair that they are stored forever unless we WIPE our entire phone and start over...and also we cannot use the RESTORE...or they restore the bad addy's as well.
Let me know if this helps you....I tried everything, and just to avoid sending the wrong address this is the only solution. This is truly a MAJOR FAUX PAUX as far as the usability of the day to day operations of the iPhone.
Apple, please address shortly...this is just not acceptable.
....but I do love my iPhone!

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