Verizon Wireless Fail

My Nokia 7205 is such a pain to get the pictures off of it, b/c Verizon has disabled all of Nokia's software on it.
Why? Why? Why?
I don't want to pay extreme fees to use your online services; I have a USB cable, a phone and a computer, I should be able to download the pictures from the phone to my computer. Is that asking too much?
So now I have to dig around and find my micro-SD card adapter, so I can pull the card from the phone and transfer the pics using my SD card reader.