Cannot get Palm Desktop in Mac to see data transferred from a PC

My wife has been using Palm PDAs for about 10 years, most recently a TX. Both this and her PC laptop have been stolen. She backs up to my FTP site from her laptop her MollyB directory (MollyB is her Palm user name) with everything below it. She urgently needs to get at her Palm data. I have FTP downloaded her data into my MacBook Pro (running OS-X 10.5.8) and have downloaded from the Palm website Palm Desktop 4.2.1 for Mac.
However, I cannot get the program to see the data.
How do I solve this?

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Question Details: Can someone please make suggestions which would correct the following issues?
1) When printing an Address Book from my Mac, the information in the 'title' field prints twice. (I have checked my Preferences settings & reviewed how I have entered the information, etc. and everything is in order; also, an Address CARD DOES print correctly --- and --- after syncing to my T3 and then to my husband's PC, an Address Book prints correctly from the PC.)
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*(Below is a thread I started in another forum, but, didn't get my final questions answered (see at bottom of this post in BOLD), and am hoping for further help and suggestions. I know there is a lot to read here, but, I think this information will help other novices, such as myself. Thanks!)*
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You are limited with only 2 drive slots. In this scenario what usually works best is a small fast drive (eg Velocirapter or SSD) for OSX/Applications and a large drive for video files. It is not advisable to have the operating system running from a striped array.
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Thanks for the correction- my bad. No familiarity with non-Intel Macs.
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