I agree with all the people who say the apple stuff should be removed. Pioneeer has tried this implementation several times and never have made the functionality worth the aggrivation. I remember buying my first AVIC-N1 with the iPod adapter, even went and bought an iPod, thinking it would be a great fit. The Pioneer interface was so poorly designed, I returned the iPod and sold the adapter on eBay.
It also seems that as GUI interfaces evolve, pioneer continues to fall short, since my AVIC-N1, I've also owned a D3 and a 140BT. There are a million (slight exageration) things I would fix if