IPhone 3GS photos - ithmb, whaa??

So I might be an idiot... but I would love to get the camera roll photos off of my 3GS and into photo folders on my PC.
When I sync, they go into an "iPod photo cache" as .ithmb files - which of course, won't open. I have searched like crazy and have yet to come up with a solution. I really don't want to download (and pay for) Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0 unless it's absolutely necessary.
What's going on?
Did I do something wrong?
How do I get these photos into folders that I can actually open and remove them from my phone???
(I really hope I'm not an idiot and that there is a simple solution out there in Apple-Land)
Thanks!

Photos in your camera roll are imported just like photos from any digital camera. In your case, using Windows, you would use the "camera and scanner wizard" in your control panel to do so.

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