What Model Palm PDA Shall I buy?

Preface:

Any reply that recommends my getting a phone of any kind will be given to the hellraiser and he will find you and twist you to death forever. And forever and ever, you will in hell. Ditto a camera.

Problem:

I currently have a Tungsten E2 which was just fine until recently. Then it went wonky. It still has all my addresses and dates but…

1) The program on my PC crashed? That is to say all the addresses and dates are gone. I have been assured that it has not migrated to another location. It has truly left the building.

2) It gets stuck on a date. Every other Thursday, it reminds me that “trash pickup is tomorrow” and beeps as it should. However, that message remains until I do something, such as go back to “Home.” So if I do nothing, one Fri, Sat, Sun etc., it still show the message to put the trash out tomorrow. It didn’t used to do that.

My computer “expert” doesn’t want to transfer the current information from the PDA to my PC because he says ALL the information may disappear from both, so we didn’t do it.

Questions:

*If I can find the original disc that came with it, can I reprogram without loosing the data, or is all that wiped clean?
*Is there a safe way to store the data and reprogram the unit? If yes, how?
*Is there any way to get the E2 repaired? If yes, how would I go about doing this? Is it worth it?
*If I got a new PDA, let’s say a Palm TX HandHeld Palm OS Garnet 5.4 1047NA, could I transfer to data safely from the Tungsten E2?

Oye. My head bout tuh bus open.

Carol