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I let my Exchange server be the holder of my contacts and calendar ... I only utilise PIM to backup/restore phone specific items ... Never had an AS issue ...

As an after thought, I've added this item ... I sseem to recall having an AS issue once upon a time that I tracked down to a sync relationship to WMP [on my laptop]. If I had done a reload on my PPC and had WMP runnning when connecting the PPC to the USB, sometimes, AS would "get confused" and pop a message up that said something like "can't complete sync. try reconnecing your device. If it persists, utilise the AS troubeshooter" ... For me, the fix eas qusi-painfull ... On the device, I had to delete the PC relationship. On the PC I had to remove the sync relation in WMP AND reinstall AS. [At least I think that's what I had to do - don't have my notes on that any longer] ...

Hope this is of use.