Remote Calendar Sync - is a simple solution possible?

[btrcp2000]

Dredging up an ancient thread here. I am wondering how this setup is working now that you have been using it for over a year, (assuming you still are, of course...)

I hope to synchronize my family's calendars/tasks to my wife's phone (lg rumor), my htc touch pro, a pocketpc that lives on the nightstand for those "holy &^%$, i forgot to..." moments, and some centralized thing on the computer in the kitchen (that could be google cal, outlook, doesn't really matter)

Is this still working well for everyone? What does it do to battery life? For tose of you that did, how do you set up "categories"? For example, I only want my work stuff to go back and forth between my phone and my work laptop via activesync, but I want both work and family stuff on my phone (work via AS and fam via this strategy)

tia