Pony Flare
Oh, and one question to add to this:
Why can't these things go directly into the inventory, same as with items acquired in zOMG? Why the need for the backpack at all?
That's how it's working now. Once you leave Towns, or change zipcode, the items that you had collected will be automatically saved into your inventory. There were a few users who had bad data (such as yourself), and so the save was failing, but that's fixed now.
I went into Towns, and left with your account, and now the items are in your inventory.