[LocalHero]

I just posted this on HOFO but thought I'd post here as well hoping for an answer before I come to a bridge:

I have a new-to-me omnia and I'm wanting to backup before upgrading to wm6.5 etc.

Via the opnmarket app I looked into backups and settled on pim backup. Only it is apparently not available at this time.

So I switched to ms my phone app. That one downloaded but wants me to sign up for an online account. OK, I'm game but when I went thru the signup process (using the application) it got to where I had to verify 6 characters in a box. I could see no characters in any box. I tried to refresh and it went nowhere. I went thru this process 3x before I gave up.

So, back to pim. I figured I'd just download it onto my pc and transfer it over to the microsd. Downloads ok and it's an exe flie. I was expecting a cab file but I don't know if it makes a diff.
Anyway I try to email it to my phone but gmail won't allow emailing of exe files.

So OK, I try to transer it via usb. My pc won't recognize my phone...has no drivers for it.

Ok, so Active sync. Oops, I bought the phone used and didn't come with the cd so I don't have necessary software on my pc.

OK, I'll just pull the microsd card from the phone and put it directly into the pc. This seems to work... file transfers seemingly ok.
Only now with the card back in the phone I can't find the file. There are several files present and dated today: hwaround, mxip_lang, mxip_notify, and pim but clicking on any of them tells me there's no application to run them.

If I can't get some help here my next plan is to throw the phone off the next bridge I see and go back to a dumb phone which probably syncs with my brain better.

Thanks!