[BryanJ]

I'm so sorry for those of you that have been having trouble. For those of you who don't know, I'm the primary developer of the software. The only ActiveX component that is used in the installation is the "Palm ComStandard 1.0 Type Library". The only reason I can think of that you wouldn't be able to install the conduit components is either beacuse you haven't run the "PalmCOMInstaller.exe" that was included with the installation. This also requires that you do have the Palm desktop software installed already. If you are still having trouble after installation, there are two things you should know. The first is that in my retardation, I assumed that most people would have some version of Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) installed. I used the Data Access Objects (DAO) from a two year old version of MDAC. I assumed most people have hat it put in at some point, anyways I believe almost all versions of windows ship standard with this. But if you are having this problem, you can download MDAC from microsoft's download site, you know microsoft.com/downloads. Just search for 'mdac', any of the results will work, just don't get one of the service packs or add on's instead. Additionally, I have recently found out that there is a data mapping error that occurs silently on some systems! I feel really bad about this and apologize to anyone who has had this happen. The symptoms include appearingly "jarbled" data when synced. Please check for this, if it is happening to your system, don't sync anymore handhelds. I have isolated the problem and will have an update out in just a few days. I also will be releasing the desktop software that goes with this package, and will feature web syncing! If the beta can be ready before the next set of regionals, I will release them together. If not, then I will get the syncing update out ASAP.