Phone Number at top of Contacts list

I had the original iPhone and upgraded it to the 3G. This came with two problems:
My phone number no longer appears at the top of the contacts list. It used to and it does on every other iphone I've seen. It's not that big of a deal, but I'd like it there, because I'm constantly forgetting my number and it was a convenient way of remembering it. Plus I'd like to know why it's not there.
Visual Voicemail - the button didn't work. I solved this from a thread found here, basically call yourself (not using 1, call yourself), hit * and then create a new password. When you're done, it will ask for the password again, just enter it and you're fine.

I've just been searching for references on the number not appearing on the phone. On my wife's phone it doesn't show up at all and not on itunes either. One post said it had something to do with the sim card that's in the phone does not have your number listed in the "own number" field that's on the sim. It was recommended to take the sim out and put it into another gsm phone that will allow you to read the fields on the sim and manually put your number in. Then put that sim back into the iphone and it should appear, you might have to go to settings under mail, calendars, contacts and import from sim.
The other method mentioned was to restore the phone as a new phone and not from backup. I did this with my phone for another issue and it was a major pain setting everything back up so I won't be doing this again unless there were no other way. As for the sim method I might go to an AT&T store and have them pull the sim and enter the number. Since it's now my wife's phone maybe she'll go do it?!!
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