iPhone 3G 16GB / iPod Classic 160GB

saddened

I'm looking to learn if others have gotten these devices to work as you would expect.

I've got the Touring w/ Navigation (sport as well, but I'm fairly certain that it doesn't matter).

Where I'm at:

(iPhone 3G 16GB):
- Charging doesn't work, aftermarket adapters may address this by swapping the firewire and usb charging pins. Haven't tried myself yet.
- Audio passthrough doesn't work via the iPod adapter. Haven't tried via the AV jacks, but I have no reason to believe that wouldn't work.
- Bluetooth works as intended, no problems there.

(iPod Classic 160GB, approx 95% full):
- Seems to truncate the artist list
- Albums do appear under the artist, but all appear empty when selected.
- Does seem to play from the very first track it discovers (sorted alphabetically), and you can skip forward through all of the tracks (at least a few hundred, didn't test further).

Anyone else getting better results with the same (or similar, in the case of the classic) devices?

Thanks.