Annoying things

So I have my brand spanking new 80Gb 5th Gen iPod (in black of course), and I am having a gazillion problems with it. Of course partially it is because I couldn't be bothered to read the manual, but the quickstart guide wasn't really much help. First I couldn't work out how to get the songs from the haunted MP3 to the new one, but Claire kindly stepped in with advice there, before I spent the rest of my life uploading track by track. Still quite a bit of work as there is a lot to transfer but suddenly my iPod has 3000+ tracks (including the fab Black Parade by MCR ... have I mentioned how completely fantastic that album is?). So I then set about converting all those hundreds of CDs I have sitting on my shelves. Of course this is taking up copious amounts of room on my PC - my 120Gb HDD now only has 25Gb of free space left. Having spent about 3 hours converting albums I leave them to copy to the iPod overnight. I have no idea what I did but when I turned it on this morning I now only have the 349 tracks from the CDs that I uploaded last night - all the other stuff has gone (yep including the MCR album *sob*). So now I have to work out how to add stuff WITHOUT losing the stuff already on there. Mrs H3 has given me a suggestion so I'll give that a try tonight and fingers crossed I'll have it sorted ... till the next thing goes wrong *LOL*.

Now of course I've always been hopeless with mobile phones - I can add a number (mostly) and text and that's about it - in fact it was only a couple of weeks ago (after almost a year of having my latest phone) that I worked out that I could add pictures and ringtones to specific people so I know it's them (yep I am that dim). Whilst on holiday I took a load of photos on my phone when I was unable to use my normal camera. I now obviously want to get them off my camera and onto my PC. This is proving to be somewhat vexing. I have connected my phone to the PC via USB and opened the phone file manager. Unfortunately, when I open the folder the photos should be in, the folder is empty - however, the photos are still on my phone. The first time I tried to open the folder I got a Windows error message and I think that must have done something to affect the folder. This seems to have everyone stumped so I've had to e-mail Sony Ericsson and ask them if they know how I can get my pictures off. Annoyingly, the pictures are stored on the phones memory rather than on the memory stick so it's not just a case of taking them out and putting them in a reader. I hope they come back with a workable option soon as it's my Duran Duran pictures which are at stake here!