I got it!

I *finally* got my 3G iPhone at the Rockingham mall Apple store! The
Apple store employee told me that AT&T's activation servers were down,
so he simply sold me the iPhone without activating it and told me I'd
need to connect it to iTunes when I got home. I'm home now and my new
3G iPhone is connected and I'm restoring the back-up of my 1st
generation iPhone to it right now…