HELP! Mac Jag to Visor Deluxe No or Slow Sync

Question

Recently my handspring Visor Deluxe would not sync. It would sync address' no problem then get stuck during Date Book sync mode.  Eventually, "Connection lost" would appear.  I have uninstalled & installed iCal and Hotsync but it did not cure.  Now, I have to remove Visor batteries, clear memory and re-sync (download) iAddress & iCal but takes hours! If you have experienced this and fixed the problem please help.  Palm stores are all gone!
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Answer 1

To disable a conduit, open hotsync manager, and from the hotsync menu select 'conduit settings'. Select the datebook conduit in the list that appears and click the 'conduit settings' button at the top of the window. You should be given four options, 'Synchronize the files', Macintosh overwrites handheld', 'handheld overwrites macintosh', and 'do nothing'. When you this window appears, the top option, 'synchronize files' should be selected. Click the button next to the bottom option, 'do nothing' and click ok. Then try a hotsync to see if it was the datebook that was causing issues.
If a hotsync succeeds with the datebook conduit disabled, then try a sync with either 'handheld overwrites macintosh', or 'macintosh overwrites handheld', whichever one has the most up to date information on, as it is a far simpler operation than comparing two databases of dates and updating both of them without duplicates. 
When you say you reinstalled iCal, I assume you used software restore and the original installation DVD that came with your computer? 
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