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I believe it is the only tool sanctioned to create local backups of iOS devices.

There is a real market opportunity for someone to do just this cleanly on Windows; Apple works hard to make things more secure (aka changes the software & hardware interface for backups) all the time though.

Top priority: getting media (pics+videos) off the device. Any suggestions would be appreciated!

You can only transfer music via USB onto an iPhone via iTunes.

That's a good reason not to own an iPhone. Android may have its (many) faults, but at least I can transfer music onto it from my Linux command line with "adb push". Or I can take out the SDcard and just pop it into my computer and transfer it like I copy any other files.

Is there another way to get music onto an i(device)?