Missing information with Address Book

I've got a Centro, run Mac OS X 10.4.11, and managed to get iSync to play nice with my new Centro (palm os 5.4.9) and transfer over the years of information I have stocked up in iCal and Address Book.app. Everything seemed fine on the surface, but when I went to look at the contacts on the Centro, it only transfered some of the data. Particularly, I'm missing address from every contact that has only 1 address (which happens to be the vast majority). iSync managed to pull over the first address if there is a second one, but it has it mislabeled. For example:
On the computer
Contact : Me
some phone numbers
Home Address
Work Address
On the Centro
Contact : Me
some phone numbers
Home Address (which is labeled as Work)
Really quite frustrating. What am I doing wrong? I've done several searches using various keywords and 90% of the time I end up getting directed to buy more software (Missing Sync), on top of the several hundred dollars I've already shelled out on an operating system and palm hardware. Please, tell me there's a better way.
Less important, but equally annoying, are such small things as
-How do I file contact categories en masse from my computer?
-How do sync contact photos from Address Book.app to the Centro?
-How do I get locations to transfer from iCal to the Palm Calendar on the Centro?
-How do I get the Palm Calendar's categories to match with iCal's?
-How do I get the Palm Calendar to accept iCal's categorizations of appointments?
I tried posting this over in the Palm help forums, but got no responses, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Daniel

Welcome to Apple Discussions.
You have bumped up against the substantial, long term limitations of the iSync Palm Conduit, and iSync itself, with respect to the issues you point out.
There is no explicit support for contact and calendaring extensions introduced with later versions of the Palm personal information management applications. Categories, for example, are not supported. The conduit still does not, and—I dare say, never will—support the synchronization of any address labeled other than <home>.
Each of the issues you raise is addressed by Mark/Space with the Missing Sync for Palm OS, and that is the only workaround available to you.

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