8530 HELP PLEASE! Installed new driver

I installed the new driver last night (2/17/2012). There was no warning that the new driver no longer uses Intellisync and only syncs with MS Outlook. All of my contacts and calendar are in a 3rd party software which uses Intellisync. I have been compiling contacts in this software since 2004. So I am screwed now in regard to synchronization . I do not want to migrate to MS Outlook because my current 3rd party database software links contact records and calendar events.
I had to abandon my perfectly good Palm when I upgraded to Windows 7 and bought the BB because it did synch with my database software. How do I revert back to the previous driver which will use Intellisync?
It would have been customer-friendly if there had been a warning prior to my installing the new driver upgrade (as in "what changes"). This is unforgivable!!!!!!!

Cameron,
You guessed correctly - before you can restore from backup, you must format the drive. Select the drive in Disk Utility, click on the "Erase" tab and format the drive as "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" and give it a name ("Macintosh HD" is Apple's default name for internal drives) and then click erase. Your drive will be formatted in a minute or so and you can proceed with Time Machine restoration.
Good luck,
Clinton

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