My husband has a curve. He often drags and drop songs from his Itunes library directly into the BB desktop manager's ringtones folder with no problem.
I got my first BB yesterday - an 8130. I tried to do the same thing. I drag a song from Itunes and drop it in my ringtones folder. When I check the phone itself - the song appears in Music and my Ringtones folder is empty. Does the Pearl function differently in this regard? P.S. - when I look back at the desktop manager the song IS in ringtones.