New to the Dinc and have some questions

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Hey Guy's finally got my Droid Incredible and boy is it great! I am having an issue though with my active sync though. I was able to set up my sync to my server and get all of my contacts through Outlook express then I set up my G mail account and all of my info would sink with no issue Great! Then for some unknown reason it stopped syncing? It says that the is an error with the sockets?? I do have a VPN network. I am also having issues shopping for apps for some reason the when I buy something I can not complete the transaction with the credit card? It keeps saying there was an error and to hit the back button and try again? Anyone have these issues??
Thanks