IPhone 3GS & iOS4 Issue

Since updating to iOS4, I've noticed that when listening to the iPod app I'm unable to load new updates into other apps, they just time out. Examples:
- Mail & Messages apps cannot send/receive messages
- Safari cannot open any web page
- 3rd party apps (Weather Channel, for instance) time out or I receive "Cannot connect to server" message
Once I stop the iPod app everything loads quickly. This happens on WiFi or 3G. I've already done a clean restore (not from backup), but I still have the same problem.
Another related issue is that occasionally when using the iPod app, if another app interrupts (a phone call, say) the iPod pauses (as it should) but then doesn't restart once the other process is completed (ending of phone call). I have to restart the iPod app to return to what I was listening to before.

Here's the issue I am having, along with a "solution" or at least what I've figured out. The main issue is that iPhone 4 is not getting mail appropriately from the GMAIL Exchange server.
- iPhone 3GS running iOS4 works fine.
- iPhone 4 has a problem reading mail from GMAIL Exchange server
Settings for both are exactly the same:
EMAIL: myemail
SERVER: m.google.com
DOMAIN:
USERNAME: [email protected]
PASSWORD: mypassword
USE SSL: on
With this setup, my iPhone 4 seems to get Push notifications OK, but fails when trying to get mail via normal sync (i.e. when you go browse the inbox). It will sit there "Checking for Mail" until it comes up with an error contacting server. Having tried all the other listed solutions (i.e. drop and re-add acct, reboot phone, toggle SSL, use 3G only, etc.) I had no results, so I played with it until I got a solution.
THIS IS WHAT I FOUND:
I can get the mail sync to work perfectly if I change my username from [email protected] to just myusername (delete the '@gmail.com'), but then I can't send email out. Switching back to the full [email protected] fixes sending emails but breaks the normal email fetching, so I suspect there is a bug in the iOS mail software that's appending an '@gmail.com' or stripping it depending on what you're trying to do, but these two should be consistent to avoid this problem... we need a FIX!

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