I'm not sure of the storm but the pearl that I had before the ringtones were part of the core OS and could not be deleted. The stock ringtones are in a compressed format anyway and take up very little memory.
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try using bb swiss army knife...i used that to slim down my OS 5.0 before loading, removing useless languages and other things. you may be able to find the ringtones in there