Exactly how do I get mp3s onto my N97

I'm sure this is a real basic question, but Nokia's software is once again proving to be mind bogglingly difficult to use.
Could someone give me some pointers, I'm sure it must be possible
1) I've tried installing Nokia music. I imported a directory of MP3 files (nice and basic, should play on phone fine) only about 100 files that date back about 4 years.. They all appear in the library.. I click on the big phone icon on the left, it tells me to connect a MTP device or phone.. so I plug in my phone and select "media transfer".. PC suite tells me the phone is connected in the wrong mode.. and Nokia music tells me... to connect my device.. I try the 3 other modes.. image transfer, pc suite and mass storage.. Nokia music at no stage sees me phone.. useless.. Nokia, please see Apple for details of how software should work.. and I'm not an itunes fan, I won't use it.. but it does just that.. work
2) I install the Ovi suite beta.. It sees my music "collection" without having to rescan.. presumably it picked it up from the Nokia music application.. neat, shared DB makes sense.. Ok, I plug my phone in using pc-suite mode.. I open the Music page in Ovi and press sync.. sync becomes greyed out.. odd..I go back to the "home screen" it spends 10 minutes syncing... at the bottom a progress bar appears and shows me which track is being synced..
it finishes syncing and pops up a yes/no box asking if I'd like to automatically sync in the future.. I select no..
I disconnect the phone.. no new music.. 
In the 10 minutes of syncing all it did was create 4 directories for each of the artists and albums it "transfered" they are all empty.
am I doing something wrong or is PC suite and the Ovi beta possibly the most useless phone sync software in the world??!
This is a media phone, right?! c'mon, someone throw me a bone? If this requires a *#7370# of my computer as well as my handset, I think I'm going to have contemplate a different plan of action.. 
And they want me to trust "comes with music" comes with unsyncable music you can't play on the go?!
But in all seriousness, folks.. anyone have any idea what I've done wrong.. ?!?!
Confused, of london

Cheers matto73, that's how I ended up doing it in the end. I was a little miffed as I'd like to be able to sync music automatically, but nothing Nokia + music related seems to detect the phone?! I worked quite well with my gf's 5800 and my Mac (she keeps her music in itunes *spit*) but Nokia haven't added the USB ID / product ID to the mac software so it doesn't detect the N97 either gaah!!!!
Now I have an album or 3 on my phone, I'm a *bit* happier, I'm going to see if there's a open source alternative to Nokia music that might work a bit nicer, perhaps using MTP (media-transfer) I would re-install my windows machine but I litterally only use it for PC suite (and administering a switch that requires IE6) so it really shouldn't need it.. maybe if I have a free afternoon!

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