[mrgino]

well i temporarily just copied my contacts over to outlook on my XP laptop and sync'ed from there. huge pain in the ***, but it's good enough until i have time to reformat my vista machine again (just did it end of april! ugh).

im guessing theres a trace of the apache somewhere in the vista registry and some planets just arent alligning right so wmdc just gives up and says nothing's connected. but if anyone else has had this experience and had any luck fixing, i'd love to know...