1) I thought the avic came out in 2007.whic would be 4 years subtract 8 months and you get a little over 3 years technology difference. Either way, the cable and extra power feed did end up working to charge the phone while letting the d3 see it (in case anybody else wants try and make "old" technology work.
6) That's actually not been the case. (if it did that would make me happy). The problem is I plug it into the dock connector when I get into the car then it switches over to blue tooth audio, so then I have to go into the phone and switch it back to the dock connector so that I can