Universal dock concern

I was lucky enough to find a factory sealed 1st gen iphone (16gb) on ebay earlier this week and I grabbed it before anyone else did. I was a previous owner of the same phone earlier this year before I sold it. Anyways while I was waiting to receive my new iPhone (1st gen) I picked up some Apple accessories for the phone, one being the universal dock adapter. When trying to place the phone in the universal adapter I have noticed the connectors don't fit as easily as they do with the standard dock that comes with the phone. With the standard dock it almost falls right into the connector, where with the universal adapater, you actually have to push it to get to go into the connector. Please don't get this confused with adapaters to use with the universal dock, I'm merely speaking about the universal dock itself (it's connector) and the phones connector (the two of them connecting into one another.
Has anyone else experienced this and is this normal? I noticed on that unverisal adapter there are 2 small tan colored plastic pieces that stick up (1 on each side of the connector) where as on the standard dock there is not. Is this what is causing you to have to 'push' the phone into the connector? And if so, why would they put these two pieces on the universal dock but not the standard dock? This is the only thing I can see that could be causing this problem.
Also the first time I put the phone into the universal dock, I got a message displaying on my phone that the phone was not compatible with the universal dock. Yet it's the only universal dock Apple makes for the ipods/iphones and it clearly stated on the ordering page that the universal dock would fit ANY ipod/iPhone that has a dock connector.
So any info? I just want to make sure I'm not going to break my phones connector and wanted to get some feedback on this.
Thanks.
P.S. I've been trying to open up the battery door on the remote (that comes with the universal dock) but I can't get it to open for the life of me. I've followed the directions in the users guide that came with it but it doesn't seem to be doing what it should be doing (as described in the manual). It's pictured where you push a button on the door cover and it should open up, it does not open and I can't get it to open. Any ideas?

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