Your allowed carry on and an another hand bag...if that's a bag of stuff you buy in the airport they won't check it...so buy a magazine and put in your heavier items.
To transfer stamps to new passport you need a letter from the embassy here? Or you did... It was easy the email a blank letter to you, that you fill in yourself.
Yes, reset, start new... in most immigration the first 1 has to be done in person. Some immigration don't need a new tm30 returning to the same address... Some do.. TiT!