Review: Samsung Captivate

i just got this phone 2 days ago, and have had a really hard time connecting it to my PC. There was no software in the box, so i figured it would be read as an external hard-drive, but nothing popped up when i connected it.

After some research, i downloaded Kies, but once I got it running, it said an update was available and then the update took 10 hours to finish and i had to go to work.

Any hints/suggestions???