Other file size grow to more then 6GB. Heed help to reduce size.

I have the iphone 3G- 16gb. Recently I noticed that the orange section(Other) has grown to 6gb. I have less then 1gb free space now. How can I reduced this "other" file size and what is this? At first I thought it was the book mark so I got rip all of it but "other remain at 6gb". Any suggestion or help appreciated.

i had the same issue. I had just updated to iTunes 8.2.1. When I synced phone it said phone was synced with another library. IMPOSSIBLE! this is the only computer (iMac) I have ever synced with (or even plugged into.) I went ahead and clicked erase current iphone content and sync. I thought "no problem" as I have everything backed up already.
I got a message saying "Not enough memory for all the music and photos." No new music or photos since last sync a few days ago. Not there is 9 GB of "other" data. How do I erase all the "other data?" Does "restore" really do this? or an app like iStat?
Any thoughts will help.
Thanks
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