SMS Deleted NOT LOW on Memory -- plus other problems. HELP!

Ive only had my Curve 8900 for about a year, and I know thats about a decade in techie years but still...I'm incredibly frustrated with the issues I've been having!
Most pressing of these issues is that my phone keeps deleting my SMS even though my memory is NOT low! I've read tons of posts about the same issue but its always resolved by freeing up some memory. 
My current memory status:
File Free: 90317537
Thus I have 90.31 MB free...yes?  Shouldnt that be enough? 
Apparently not. I have nothing stored on my blackberry, everything is on the Media Card (4GB) and I only have a couple applications (MSN, Facebook, GTalk) and yet my SMS get deleted regularly unless they are saved on my SIM card and also notifications on facebook are often deleted (those dont matter too much to me but I believe it is resulting from the same thing that is deleting my SMS)
Further, my call logs ARENT being deleted. So I dont think its the same memory problem everyone else seems to have. 
I will be most most most grateful to anyone who can help me out here or at least point me in the right direction.
Im seriously considering shelling out for an iphone even though ive only had my blackberry for a year because I do rely heavily on smartphones and losing SMS is really driving me crazy. Sometimes I cant even read a newly received SMS before its deleted! By the time i pick up my phone its gone... 
Please help!
Ive had other problems as well, not to ramble on but in case they are related:
I will be chatting on bbm for example and it will just exit out of the conversation or the application entirely. 
Oftentimes it slows down so much that the minute hand or whatever stays and everything freezes until i do a battery pull (which i hate doing but have to at least once a day) This often happens when Im using the browser...
Sometimes when I am getting a call the minute hand appears again and I cant answer
Oftentimes when this happens it says that I am receiving a call from an unknown number, but when they call back it turns out its a number i have saved...weird...
Sometimes I cannot dial or call (frustrating as hell when i need to make a call urgently!) I have to again do a battery pull to fix the issue. 
Ive had other issues here and there but nothing really worth mentioning after this long rant so I'll just leave it at that!!
Thanks to whoever has had the patience to read all this and I really do hope I can get some help before I release my frustrations on this piece of junk and end up having to spend tons of money on another brick...

zberry wrote:
 how do i go about installing it? 
I suggest you follow this procedure:
http://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/BlackBerry-​Device-Software/How-To-Reload-Your-Operating-Syste​...
Make sure that if, when you are making the backup (step 1 in the procedure), you say NO to any prompt to update your device OS at that point...you need to get a clean manual backup first so that you have it available just in case anything goes wrong. You will not be using DTM to do the update -- rather, you will be using the AppLoader included with the device OS package (as per step 2 in the instructions).
Also, make sure you have a manual inventory of all of your non-AppWorld 3rd party apps, including the source you obtained them from as well as any activation keys. You will want to re-install those fresh on the new OS rather than attempt to migrate them as part of the update.
zberry wrote:
By the way, are we not supposed to be informed when there is a new update? 
The carriers are in control of notifications...some do a better job at it than others.
Cheers!
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