I just reflashed my N900 using flasher and the PR 1.2 firmware, but on rebooting I found that a lot of things were still preserved, such as my previous GPRS APN, settings for a lot of my previous packages/apps.

I'm confused - I thought flashing the phone would erase everything?

Also, the flash process seems to have removed all my Nokia ring tones yet preserved other tones such as those for messaging/IM/email alerts.

Any help is appreciated,
-N900 (and Linux) newbie

If you want to flash the device back to completely stock/factory, you need to flash the eMMC as well.
I haven't done that but I recall there being specific instructions in the Wiki for doing this along with the Fiasco image.
http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_f...MC_in_the_N900

Well...that helped..I got my ring tones back

But oddly, the APN remains..oh well...I'm happy for now.