Corrupt datebook file - palm desktop crashes

I suddenly began having touble opening my palm desktop in Vista. I downloaded the new version without improvement. I then found this thread, which helped to some degree:
http://forums.palm.com/palm/board/message?board.id=software&thread.id=22183
I posted my problem there, but it maybe it is not getting viewed, so I will repost my problem here. It looks like my datebook file is corrupt, and I don't know how to fix it.
Here is the whole series of events:
Based on the directions by HardBeatZ from the link above, I deleted the datebook and address files from my palm folder. The desktop software then launched fine. I put the memo app as default. At this time I could access the (emtpy) address and datebook parts without problems. I then put back the address.mdb and datebook.mdb files and ran corrupted file tool - it didn't find any errors. When I go to the datebook on the desktop, the program crashes. (It goes to the addresses just fine). I deleted the datebook file again and renamed the datebook.mdb.bak file to be the datebook.mdb file. The program worked fine (could access datebook on desktop). I then hotsynched again....and crash city when going to the datebook. I tried re-running the corrupted file tool wihtout success. What now? It seems like the current datebook file, when downloaded from my treo, is corrupt (works fine in the treo, btw).
The datebook backup file is about 1 month, old, BTW, but I use the datebook fairly regularly and would rather not lose the changes over the last month if possible. Suggestions?
Post relates to: Treo 700p (Verizon)
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HardBeatZ wrote:
The next step is one that I normally wouldn't recommend, but I think in your case it might be necessary. Since you have everything backed up on one computer. Just delete everything that is in June on your Vista machine (you can do this by deleting everything on your handheld and syncing with handheld overwrites desktop) then see if June opens fine, if it does just manually put your data back in. I know it is a lengthy process, but I'm out of ideas
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I was thinking of doing that, but wanted to see if you had any more tricks up your sleeve! I compromised, and went through the my June events and deleted the ones I did not care about necessarily keeping. I left the important ones. I figured it was worth a shot - if things worked, I was done. If not, I would keep deleting until the month of June was event-free.... I am happy to say, that one of those less important events must have been the problem, because now the desktop software works fine!
Thanks again for all your help.
Albert
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I've been having the same problem with Palm Desktop 6.2.2 on XP with my Centro. So I split up all the events that spanned midnight, as HardBeatZ suggested, and if fixed three of the six months that crashed. I've also run dbfixit, as he suggested in another thread, which found no corrupted records. Any other suggestions? I saw in that other thread (http://forums.palm.com/palm/board/message?board.id=software&message.id=27310&query.id=29789) the idea of trashing the months and re-entering events, but that seemed to be a different problem with Vista.
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--I'm reluctant to downgrade versions. I use the same software on my Vista laptop as on my XP desktop and I'd like to confuse the issue or go through degrading both.
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