[TheBundo]

After a hard-reset, everything has to be re-installed, whether it was in main memory or on your SD card. The SD card won't be wiped out by the hard-reset, but everything the original installation did to the main memory, including registry entries, will be gone.

But re-installing programs, whether they are installed to main or SD memory isn't neccasary if you just "Restore" from your previous night's backup that you made with SPB Backup or Sprite. However, since you want to move where the are installed to, you need to not run the backup, but start fresh. Just make sure you save all the cab's to your card first. I save EVERY cab to my SD card, regardless of where I end up installed the program to (a few programs work best when installed to main memory). I install 19 out of 20 programs to my SD card, and save EVERY downloaded file, cab, etc., to my 16 gig SD card.

And failing to use either SPB Backup or Sprite is the reason for a large amount of unneed posts and headaches people have with these phones. Consider these phones like a computer - if what you have on it is important to you, not backing up with powerful backup software is just asking for trouble.