I ended up doing a reset. What a pain. I have never restored email accounts from backup...have always put them in fresh. I do, however, restore apps from backup and what a major pain. I use MyBackup Pro and you have to accept each one, one at at time. And then when you are done you still don't have the data AND...Android Market doesn't recognize the free programs.
Google really needs to come up with a way for users like me that aren't afraid of the cloud, to do backups of apps AND data. And to be able to decide which ones. I have a couple of apps that sync with my computer and would never want those in the cloud. But restoring an Android phone is the worst experience ever.
Having said that, my initial observations of Gingerbread...I think battery life is going to rock. I literally had this thing working ALL day with installations, updates, a few games in between (Wordfeud FTW)...it lasted 7 hours (would have made it 8 but I plugged it in) with non stop use. And I mean that literally.
My phone seems much snappier. It was never slow to begin with but just the act of installing apps from backup it seemed to do the installs faster.
I like the darker theme, though interestingly enough the menus are now lighter whereas before they were darker.
I'm using GoLauncher but I played a little bit with the new blur and I think I may just let blur stay stock when/if I get the Bionic. I like it but am used to GoLauncher so sticking with that for now.
I am so happy I dumped my Fascinate and got the Droid X. Unreal that the Fascinate still doesn't even have froyo.