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Easy on the Lizard, who has provided many great fixes on this forum, including the now famous Lizard Tweak for hopelessly bloated databases!

The reason the answers are a little unclear is that it appears the iTunes DOES in fact back up iPhone apps and their associated data (we all see those slowwwww backups now), however there is no way for developers to access the backups from within the sandboxes that Apple puts them in. Thus, to recover your OF data, you would have to do a full restore of the phone OS to revert to the backed up database on your desktop. OF on the phone is a stand-alone product, but I think the only way to recover iPhone app data for any iTunes app is a full nuke-and-pave restore.

What Lizard is suggesting sounds like a good work around if you have a Mac: download a trail copy of OF for your desktop and set up syncing to MobileME or a WebDAV server. Once you are synced, you can restore the db at any time by reverting to the server version of your db directly from the phone app without a full restore. Until Apple gives developers a little more latitude, that may be the best option for those with a Mac.

Otherwise, a hard restore of the phone from iTunes will place your phone back in the condition it was at the time of your last sync. The advantage of the syncing option is that you can revert to the last synced state from anywhere at any time, in case you mess up your db while out and about.

Hope this helps...