That's odd, because my "Apple product" seems to work fine when I upgrade to OS 10.6 or iTunes 9. It's the "Palm product pretending to be an Apple product" that might not work so well.

Why didn't you just call AppleCare on the phone? They'll diagnose the problem, ship you a box via DHL Overnight, and ship you the computer back DHL Overnight when they're done. The two times I had to send in my PowerBook G4 for AppleCare service it was back in my hands in two days--and these were not minor repairs. Don't use the stores. It'll take way too long.

Same as you. I'm on AT&T, downloaded from help.benm.at, with a 3GS, and it still works perfectly.

I had a mobileconfig downloaded from a website that enabled tethering on my iPhone 3GS on 3.0, and after upgrading to 3.1 it still works. What's the story?

To be fair, that kind of violent outburst can be seen on both sides of the debate. There are the crazy Mac fans, and then there are the crazy Apple haters, and any thread on Apple (positive or negative) is bound to attract both. Unfortunately, both camps contain some of the loudest members of the tech population and are utterly convinced their "side" is right, so inevitably their back-and-forth nonsense drowns out the quieter majority of reasonable users.

I guess this could be said of nearly any issue, really.