ISync & .Mac ruined my life

I have been syncing my bluuetooth phone to my mac for some time now just fine. Now that I have a .Mac account to sync my contacts and bookmarks across three macs, it's friggin ****. I sync to .mac and then to the phone, and now countless entries are missing from my phone. I spent considerable time today deleting dupes from each source, and combining email and phone numbers into one person's name card, and now tons of data is gone. When I open a persons card, I only see an email and no phone numbers even though there were two numbers there a few minutes ago. My iSync is set to sync only entries that have phone munbers to the phone, but half of them are gone now and the associated enrties in my address book no longer have numbers. Where the **** did they go? This system is really f*cked up. How could it just arbitrarily delete data?

Hello All,
To relay my story which i hope may help some people avaid grief. My old nokia 6600 synced beautifully. Bit old so i thought i would upgrade to an O2. After 1 week of messing around and buying $50 of special software on the net. Syncing never worked properly, sold the O2 a week later. Then when i tried go back to sync my nokia, all the O/S stuffed up and i had to re format my powerbook completely. Horrible experience. No more 3rd party software i say.
After a year my 6600 is really getting old, bought a new ericson k700. OOPs never checked but that phone will not sync without 3rd party software. Not doing that again, so i sold the ericson after 3 days.
A week later, i bought a motorola V3. great looking phone and isync comaptible. What they do not tell you is that the motorola address book system is rubbish. Only lets you have 2 numbers and email per name. I have addresses and notes on all my contacts. Sold the V3 after a week. BUT, the motorola when it syncs has a bad habit of wiping out your address book. Went to my back up but still lost a few recent contacts.
Now i am back to my old worn out 6600 and down a few hundred dollars on reselling phones. I still have to upgrade my phone, the 6600 wants a rest.
Recommendations
1 - check the nokia site for up to date isync compatible phones. Even downloading a plug in from this site is OK. Then buy your phone from the list. (Same for ericson and others, i suppose, but i like nokia as a personal preferrence)
2 - Do not buy or install any third party plug ins unless you have checked it on the discussion boards with a number of sources and are sure it will work. They should be cheap ($10) and simple. Careful, as the people that sell this software are on our discussion boards promoting their products. Like my O2 experience, complex 3rd party plug ins can wreck your system.
3 - If , like me, you can not find a compatible phone that you like from the compatible list, wait. Nokia makes new models all the time but the plug ins may take a while. Some models may not be compatible at all. eg 5700 may never have a plug in and the new 6120 may take a while to come out.
I am still waiting for a phone to come along that i would like to buy. In the mean time i keep the bandaids on my 6600.

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