EDGE - the cause of battery & overheat problems in 3.0?

So I got the overheating/battery symptoms on my iPhone 2G like a lot of people here. I started to experiment as to why these problems were occuring and I think I have finally found the culprit:
EDGE/GPRS
I'm on a Pre-Paid plan since my iPhone was given to me by my brother so I no longer need a plan for it. When I upgraded to 3.0, my iphone started having 1/2 the battery time I used to have on 2.2.1 & it was getting hot enough to cook an egg! Then I discovered that my APN Settings were not set so I set them up. I was happy! My battery was back to normal and my iPhone wasn't frying my hand whenever I held it! but then the next day I tried to make a call and BAM no more funds on my cell phone. I was like wth?! I just put in $50 bucks on my cell the day before yesterday, why don't I have funds anymore. I called my provider and they told me that I had used it ALL up on internet Use. That's when it occurred to me "hey EDGE, you're an expensive lil..."
So I disabled EDGE by taking off the APN info and BAM I was back to 5-6 hours of battery life (stand by or on usage) and my iPhone was causing my hand to develop arthritis again (not literally but yeah)!
So Apple... HOW DO I DISABLE EDGE?! Seriously this is costing me a fortune and if I attempt to get rid of it my battery life is poop (Because iPhone goes nuts and tried to connect to the EDGE network every second).
Please help me. anyone?

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