Pain points with the iPhone 3G

Hi,
This is partially a rant, mostly due to frustrations with the device of things that I cannot do with it, and perhaps someone can help me with a few issues.
To provide some background, I purchased the iPhone 3G the week after it was released, and I really like most of the features on the device; however, there have been some noticeable holes with it, that have really lowered my opinion of the device, and depending on whether some of my problems get resolved, Apple as a whole.
A couple months ago, my Windows XP desktop computer which had my entire media library crashed, and the Windows Recovery completely wiped the hard drive. I had not backed up a good portion of my purchased songs at the time, and due to troubles I was having, switched the PC to running Linux. This has caused some major pain for me, as Apple does not provide iTunes on Linux (which I needed to do work from, and I did not want to reinstall XP), which left me with absolutely no way to sync/update my phone without purchasing a new computer (which I finally broke down and did).
Now that I have a new computer, I am trying to pull the remnants of my music library off of my iPhone, but iTunes says that I cannot copy the files to the computer, and wants me to erase the phones contents to be able to manually manage the phones music library. Is there anyway to tell itunes that I want my library to be managed from my new computer, and that I do not want to kill everything on the phone?
Thanks,
Jeremy

Ok I found out how to transfer the purchased content on my own, didn't notice the transfer purchased songs when right clicking on the device.
I still have the open question on if Linux will ever be supported, as that would really enhance my user experience, as I do not think that your choice in cell phone should hinder which OS you can use or vice versa.

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