Let me guess, you live in the Pacific North-west. Pad type may help, but if your wear is due to the grit and muck that gets everywhere in the wet, disks are about the only answer. I don't know why the rear seems to wear worse than the front in wet conditions, but I've found the same thing. I do use Koolstops, salmon if I can get them, and the front is my primary brake, and it only occurs in the wet season.
As for the dribbling nose, snot rockets. Takes some getting over the aversion to ejecting bodily fluids in public, but keeps the nose clear.