Sorry, this advice is a little oblique, as I have a Palm. In the wonderful world of Palms, where nothing ever goes wrong and the sun always shines, the 'Synch' routine is customisable and can be set so that 'Desktop overwrites Handheld' or 'Handheld overwrites Desktop' and a couple of other possibilities . No doubt the Windows CE operating system has an equivalent selection.. .The interesting thing with the Palm is that it also has a nice large 'DEFAULT' button as part of the selection. Now people sometimes come along with these sorts of synch problems and activate the 'default' button, thinking that will revert all the settings to something which should at least work OK. But in the Palm OS at least, what pressing the 'Default' button actually does is "make the current settings the default" and it enshrines the problem forevermore [or nearly]. Of course the good people who bring us CE are original thinkers, I am sure, but I wonder if by some chance their setup for the synch routine just happens to have something like the same problem built into it as in the Palm. If so having another look at that area with this in mind might pay dividends. Hope it works out.