At this point everything should have been installed correctly. If not, you may be encountering a corrupted application, hack, or database. You're going to need to use the process of elimination to individually install each application/database pair and test until you find the set that causes problems.

If you follow these steps, hopefully, all will go well and you'll have a working device.

Before I go, one final reminder: don't forget to update your Palm Desktop application at home. You want to be sure to have all the machines where you're performing HotSync operations running the same software.

Jim DeLaHunt is an independent PalmPilot software developer. In his spare time, is an engineering manager with a multi-national software company and a tenor with local opera companies. He can be reached via E-mail at jdlh@jdlh.palo-alto.ca.us.