Dropped my Aria, replacing with new one....

Hello and welcome to the forum. To back up your apps go the market and grab the app called MyBackup it will allow you to back up your apps and quite a few other things. As far as your pics they should be on your SD card by default look for a folder named DCIM in that folder there is another folder named 100media your pics should be there. As far as the upgrade don't do it till you save everything because it will clear all data on the phone. 

I am sorry about that i thought the basic Mybackup would allow the restore of the apps without being rooted it works on mine because i am rooted and have a liberated version of 2.2 installed. Well at least you can still use it to back up your data.
After doing a little more research I came up with this information
The first time you go into the downloads page in the market app (after you have logged in on the phone with your google account, of course on the new phone, it should show all of the apps you had before (though i believe if you leave that page without downloading them, the free ones will disappear.) all of your paid apps can be redownloaded for free; they are tied to your google account.