sms/email won't load, titanium won't load, MyStorage gone

[Guest Echo30]

So I have "rotate screen" mapped to a long press of button 2. Last night I went to bed and plugged my phone in. I got settled in and reached over and picked it up, thinking I was long pressing the lock button. But I was long pressing button 2, which of course made titanium crash. I've seen that happen before so I just sighed, thought, no big deal, and turned the phone then back on, and went to sleep.

Well I just woke up and discovered that:

-MyStorage is gone (showing as 0.00mb in samsung memory settings

-sms/email won't load (any of them. I have turned off the samsung skin, but kept threaded messaging turned off. Nothing will load, not winmo sms/email, or Samsung sms/email. AND I can't receive sms. I tested with my wife's phone)

-titanium won't load

I was going to do a registry recover.... but my registry backup was in MyStorage.

Things I can still do:

-make/receive phone calls

-surf internet (with Opera 9.2 but IE barely works)

-normal apps work ok

Now I just realized that I backed up MyStorage to my PC, so I've just copied over the registry recover file and recovered it using PHM... and now it appears that sms/email works again, and titanium is working fine.

Ok so two questions:

-any idea what happened??

-to fix MyStorage, I just follow the procedure in the thread below correct? Is there an easier way that doesn't involve hard resetting the phone?

I find out Tuesday if my work will be graciously providing me with an actual smartphone, so here's hoping.