[schick79]

Okay, I am now so totally confused...

I just noticed today that I've been able to sync with the Enable faster data box checked. Two things have changed since when I first posted this:

1) (Much more significant) I got a replacement phone from Verizon. Still a TP2, but a different phone nonetheless.

2) I switched from Energy's Cookie Home Tab rom to the MaxManilla rom.

I'm pretty sure that it is using the extra speed as syncing all my e-mail took much shorter than I remember it taking. Any idea as to why this is now happening? Is it something with the new phone? A difference in the rom? Still the same computer, same version of WMDC, same Outlook profile, same everything else.

Another interesting observation: I don't get the icon in my system tray giving me the option to Eject Hardware, like what you would get when you inserted a flash drive. I always used to get that.