Best way to set up email/contacts/calendar on iPhone and 2 PCs?

Here's what I want to accomplish on the iPhone, at as little (no) cost as possible:
1. Personal comcast.net email account. I currently have this configured with "Delete from server" set to "When removed from inbox". At least this way if I read and delete an email on the iPhone, it is removed from the Comcast server and will not download again onto my PC. I don't think there is a way for me to delete an email on the PC and have it sync to the iPhone like the BlackBerry can do with BIS (not BES). Correct?
2. I would like to view my comcast.net email from any of my devices: iPhone, PC or Laptop. I'm trying to find a way to have some sort of central location or sync capabilities, so I don't wind up with 3 copies of every email and have to sort/delete them on each device. I've looked a little into Windows Live Mail or Google Mail, but don't know anything about those services.
3. I would also like to have contacts and calendar entries sync between the iPhone, PC and Laptop. Again, I'm not sure what Windows Live or Google can do for me here. I would like to accomplish the sync without having to cable the iPhone to the PC(s).
I may wind up with 2 emails (personal and realty) and 2 contact lists and two calendars.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I've searched these and other forums and only seem to confuse myself more!

Well, unless I'm missing something, I've beat the comcast email to death. Since it is a POP3 account, there's not a lot I can do with it.
On the iPhone, I have it set to delete from the server when removed from the inbox. At least that way if I delete an email on the iPhone, it should not download onto my PC later when I check mail there. It's not perfect... sometimes if the PC is on and the iPhone is on, the email winds up on both devices and I have to delete it twice. That was one benefit of the BlackBerry BIS system. If I deleted an email off my PC, and it was already downloaded to the BB, it would "sync" it and also delete it off the handheld.
As for having my comcast email on my iPhone, home PC, and laptop, I just need to manage each one seperately, choosing one device as the "main" device where I file and sort them.
I will look into Google for mail, contacts and calendar for my realty business.

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