What does a hard reset clear out? / can't update O...

Hi,
I'd like to get my phone back to it's original state. But doing a hard reset won't do that really as I've updated the firmware since then for example and I'm pretty sure I'll have the same firmware after the reset.
My problem is that I get an "internal error" when trying to update the Ovi maps to 3.4 using Ovi suite. If I try to do it directly on the phone I just get a generic failure message with no information.
I've removed the existing Ovi maps from the application manager but I can still run Ovi maps! It's all gone a bit strange so I thought I'd reset but I don't think it's really going to clear everything out. So I might be back where I started but minus some of the things I wanted on my phone. So I'm not sure what a reset really does.
Any ideas how I can get out of this state?
Cheers.
Peter.
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Right - I did a soft reset and tried to install Ovi maps 3.04. It told me to clear out some memory. I'd been doing that at the weekend by uninstalling applications but the main problem was 50Mb of "other files". So I only had about 8Mb free as there's around 25Mb of applications and misc other stuff (I'd moved my messages off there at the weekend).
So I did a hard reset and 3.04 has now installed. Of course - It'll now take me some time to get everything back the way it was!
Perhaps it was a lack of space on C: that was the problem all along. Not sure how I would have got rid of that "other files" space without a hard reset.

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