A Solar Flare that Resets The World

I am a huge fan of post apocalyptic fiction that deals with the end of the world as we know it or at least a global reset.  There are lots of stories out there that talk about and EMP strike that fries our electronics and takes down the power grid.  The hitch in these stories is that someone has to detonate this for it to happen and who is dumb enough to try that?  The EMP is localized to the area of the blast so it would involve the country but not much more than that.  I huge inconvenience to be sure but not too long after that we would be right back where we were before.

The big brother of the EMP is the Solar Flare or CME.  A CME large enough to cause major damage to us hasn't happened since the 1859 Carrington Event.  The thing about these events is that they last for a long time which as the world turns exposes the entire planet to its effects.  This would be catastrophic to the world but I have though of one better.  Imagine this; the solar flare has an awful side effect that causes magnetism to stop.  Imagine all your pictures falling off your refrigerator at the same time.  But beyond that try to think about all the things that wouldn't work anymore. Now I heard something once that said a solar flare could reverse the poles of the planet and maybe this ties into that but if you want a one way ticket back to the medieval period then this is it.

For those of you who don't know how this would effect us here is a brief list:

1. No more power grid.  Most power plants run with turbines that are just big versions of the alternator in your car.
2. No more vehicles.  All vehicles require spark which is generated in a coil which at is core is magnets
3. transformers and electronics rely on magnets to work
4. refrigeration, mostly, uses electrical motors in the compressor which work because of magnets.
5. gas pumps and wells. done!
6. Speakers wouldn't work
7. Computers, no more

The good news is that solar panels would still give us electricity but the charge controllers wouldn't work anymore.  We could charge batteries and use simple circuits for lights and cooking.  

I'm curious about what else you think would be effected.  Try to wrap you head around this for a bit.