Thanks. Unfortunately, BackupBuddy says NOT to backup unsaved preferences (since they're "unsaved", apparently it can cause a fatal exception to restore them) and so I have it set NOT to do this.

I will restore my Zire without the games. Yuck. It does seem like rather an odd choice to store the game info in a preferences database.

Thanks very much for the help! Now I can get my little buddy basically back to the way it was! (I've been without it since yesterday morning - horrors!)

Heather