Best course of action for lost iPhone

Hi
Can any one advise the best security strategy when you loose an iPhone 3GS.
I have it password protected and the data on it is of my prime concern.
It seems that if II wipe it I can no longer send messages or attempt to locate it.
Also if someone finds it and immediately takes the sim card out does it mean none of the remote security functions will work.
It seems that the best thing to do is immediately wipe it upon finding that its missing else the opportunity to do this in the future will not be possible.
if you later find it and its wiped what options do you have ?
Any advice ?

I lost my phone last year. It was on O2, here the steps I did (it workd for me or perhaps I was lucky):
1- report to police. got a report. call O2 immediately to block the phone.
2- took report and called O2, who blocked the sim card/phone and black listed the IMEI phone. In the UK it is a brick. o2, vodaphone, orange and T mobile share the same database for blacklisted phones. they also kept my phone number and gave me a new sim card with the same number.
It is a crime in the UK to unlock a blacklisted phone (if they can).
thief tried to activate with as many sims as he can (there is a password so he can just do a hard reset. However all my data are on sd card which is encrypted yet with another password 256 bit encryption), meanwhile the phone was sending data to the operators (he tried orange and O2 and T-Mobile). Fat chance.
He tried to unlock it with a street vendor, street vendor found out (here i was lucky) it is blacklisted, called the police. Thief caught and I got the phone
But by that time I got the Iphone (was great excuse to spend the money
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