MS Business Contact Manager

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Dave,
Looks to me like you're encountering a variation of the never-ending conflict between device backups and syncs. Apparently your Sprite backup is saving your sync partnership but not the BCM data (surprising, why?). I don't know if this is the best way, but one partial workaround is to delete the partnership in activesync before connecting your device - after the restore. This will save you having to rebuild the BCM data on the computer, but you'll still be completely reloading the device's data over AS with a new partnership. Of course in that case you wonder what's the point of backing up the synced data to begin with.
Personally I use Exchange and simply resync exchange data after a re-flash or hard-reset. (I will look into BCM again - I first tried it when it came out in 03/04; bagged it because at the time it didn't sync w/ PPCs - I guess this has changed.)