Replacing broken 3g with a privately purchased g3 (no hacks)

I am purchasing a used 3g iPhone from a friend after he recently upgraded to the 3gs, because I have a cracked screen from a drop (still works fine).
What to I have to do with ATT to swap phones, anything? Do I pull the sim chip out, place it in the new one, and activate it through iTunes, then restore one of my backups? Is it that simple?
I have applecare (just under one year left on the warranty) on the original cracked phone, and I am assuming they will not transfer it to the used phone I am purchasing. A genius stated I can contact applecare and they will 'refund' the unused portion of the applecare. Anyone out there have any experience with this?
Both phones are 16 GB 3g, both locked on ATT (no hacks).
Thanks for any information you can throw at me.
Spinner

I'm exhausted... Apple support have been a nightmare, 4 calls, first hung up on me, second was on for 30 minutes before telling me to contact a company that have not worked with apple in months but still keep getting calls, then on again to be told to submit via the web form, which never sent me a confirmation email and when I check the case number it says that it's empty.. tried phoning again and this time the girl on the end can't understand me (I'm a deployment engineer for a telecomms company and travel very widely worldwide but have never ever found it this difficult to have someone understand me).
I'm going to sit in a corner and cry now.

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