A Mac, a PC, a Treo, a Tour and an Exchange Server walk into a bar...

I've been a Palm user for over ten years. Yesterday my boss told me that I'd be getting a data plan for my Verizon phone and I could stick with my Treo or he'd upgrade me to a Blackberry. I've had my Treo for 14 months, well, I've had a Treo for 14 months, but 6 different ones because the stupid things keep breaking. It didn't take a whole lot of time to make the decision to switch to a Blackberry.
So here's the situation...
I am a tried and true Mac devotee. I have a Mac laptop and a desktop, and do the majority of my personal and creative work on the laptop. I am also a programmer, so have a PC laptop as well. My work computer is a PC (of course) and our email and calendar is hooked up to an Exchange server. 
My boss sync'd my Tour to the Exchange server this morning and I am getting my work emails, etc with no problems. 
I have the Palm desktop on my Mac and my PC, and both are sync'd with my Treo. I need to get all of my contacts into my Tour, and I'd like to get the Blackberry desktop on at least my Mac laptop so that I have a fully sync'd calendar on it since it's the computer I usually have with me. 
When I back my Treo up, all of my text messages, images, notes, etc are backed up by the Palm software as well - is there a way to port those into the Blackberry as well? Are any applications compatible between the two?
I also have a fantastic program on my Treo called NVBackup that runs on a schedule that backs up the entire phone every 24 hours so that if the phone dies all you have to do is pop the memory card out, put it in a new phone and it will reinstall everything. Is there a similar program for the Blackberry?
Thanks!!
Michelle

jheymann wrote:
At this moment I can recieve email thru the exchange server, the Mac shows its connected to the exchange server but I cannot send or reply to an email, and the incoming and outgoing server is the same freaking server!  My simple iphone syncs seeemlessly with my servers, email, calendars and contacts.  It makes no sense.  Any suggestions?
iPhones connect to Exhange servers via ActiveSync, whereas Mac OS X Mail (as does Entourage EWS and Outlook 2011) connect via Exchange Web Services (I've read it's due to rather licensing issues for ActiveSync that prevents Apple from using it on OS X as well, but that's unconfirmed). So what works with one has little bearing on what works or doesn't work on the other.
Anyway, we'll see if we can come up with any ideas. Let's start with basics: what version of Exchange is running on the server and what version of Mac OS X is your MacBook running? And does this problem happen when you're connected directly to the company network, or only when you're connecting via another provider?
Regards.

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