Touch not syncing contacts and tasks

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Just recently did hard reset. My 7th since I have had phone. They have all been caused by lockups and the phone becoming stuck on bootscreen after soft reset. This time though I cant seem to be able to sync contacts and tasks. I uninstalled and reinstalled outlook. The contact are on my PC but will not synce to the Touch. Any feedback on this would be appreciated. BTW- this hard reset thing is becoming annoying as my trust is lessening in the stability and reliability of this device. I figure that most of these problems are caused by third party programs but what fun is it to run these phones with only stock apps.