[Geekcop]

Quite a few questions here...anyway, it seems you've been doing twice the work necessary to manage your email. If you use a service such as GMail or Hotmail, then not only can you send/ receive email on your phone, but can also store your contacts on line and only enter them once. Additionally, your email is stored on line. You are correct in that if you store your email in Outlook on your PC, you stand a chance of losing it if the computer crashes. That's yet another good reason to use your phone to manage email. You can then back up your entire phone with programs such as SPB Backup and not worry about your email being lost