Device Manager Crashes Every Time I Synch

Question

I have the BB Curve 8830 on Verizon and Windows 98/Outlook 2003. Just got the smartphone last week and was synching fine until today. Now every time I try to synch, the Desktop Manager crashes and I get the message: "Desktop Manager has encountered an error and has to close," etc. usually while synching the calendar but now pretty much the minute I open the Desktop Manager. I uninstalled and reinstalled the entire program and am still having the same problem. I tried changing the Calendar to synch one way from Outlook to Device as others suggested but same dice.
Please help! This is such a time suck!
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Answer 1

After talking to the very helpful Scott at BlackBerry Support (Verizon tech help connected me to him), we resolved the issue by deleting the Intellisync folder on my hard drive (the one in Documents and Settings, drill down to your Research in Motion folder and within that there should be an Intellisync folder) and then resynching the BB to the computer. I think someone else posted this solution in another thread and actually Verizon tried to walk me through this step but they weren't pointing me in the exact right direction of which file to delete. It worked fine after that. He said that a calendar item might have been corrupted while synching, which was why it kept crashing when trying to read the calendar data. Hope that helps!