Switching iPhone from AT&T to Verizon

I just got a Verizon iPhone today and I'm trying to switch all of my content from my AT&T iPhone, but it only seems to let me restore from my iPhone 3G, which last synced in August 2010. So it will lose nearly a year of texts, contacts, photos, etc. So I reset everything on the Verizon phone and started from scratch. This time I set it up as a new phone. So now I am able to sync all my contacts, calendar and apps, but nothing is sorted correctly and I don't have my photos or texts, and I will have to spend the time going through my music again.
Help?

Ok, after a day of using the Verizon iPhone, I have gotten over this annoyance. Verizon is so much better. I have apparently been deluding myself for the past three years that AT&T has good service. 3G on Verizon is super fast. Checking my email used to take at least a minute, usually even longer, if it didn't fail altogether. I have been using the Verizon iPhone in all the same places I used the AT&T iPhone, and checking my mail is now instantaneous. I was able to have a Skype video call over 3G without it dropping even once. I can watch Netflix without the movie stopping to buffer. I am amazed.

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