Best I've gotten in Charlotte is 26 down and 9 up. I average 15-20 down and 7-8 up. The city isn't officially launched so I've only tried speed tests a few places around town and results seem consistent.
Try deleting your car from your phone and your phone from your car. Then re-pair it. It should ask if you give permission for the car to download the phonebook. Select yes and not to display the message again. You should be good.
I stream around 4 hours of podcasts using Podkicker Pro each day and have never experienced this issue with FF18 or FH13. Are you sure it couldn't be an app issue?
I no longer have the SD-10HD because I found them to be terribly uncomfortable to wear for long periods of time but I did have BT issues with them even on Gingerbread. I would recommend you try resetting the stored pairings on the headphones. This is usually performed by holding the ON/OFF...
Check your messaging app to make sure you aren't recieving CMAS weather or emergency alerts. They make a strange sound similar to the emergency alert test sound on your TV. If you are using the stock messaging app they will show up as messages with a red triangle and if you are using a 3rd...
It is the News and Weather widget that comes on the Nexus devices. I just googled News and Weather widget apk and found it. For some reason Google named the file genie.apk
http://android.clients.google.com/packages/ota/sprint_samsung_d710/bbe3997e3067.SPH-D710_update_EL29_to_FF18.zip
Thanks to devinrovell at XDA for the link.
See my response here: http://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint-galaxy-s-ii-epic-4g-touch/189047-official-i-received-ics-ota-update-thread.html
It is comment #20
I was having Swype issues in the leaked builds too. I can't remember exactly but I think i fixed it by clearing the data and cache for swype in the applications menu. This will probably delete your word library so you may want to back that up.