.mac sync fail/freeze

although i have gotten a more recent system (new computer with os 10.6.x), i still incorporate my old powerbook (running os 10.4.11) into the mix of computers i use. i have been encountering a recent problem though with my .mac sync on the old system.
i can easily get everything up and running to sync with .mac (mobileme in the newer systems) and everything runs fairly smoothly for awhile. then out of nowhere the .mac sync will fail and whenever i try to sync (as i always do), it locks up until i get an error message informing me of the fail.
as a test to the server, i created a new user on the same computer, and registered the computer to sync, and all the syncing happens again in that new account. the original one stays locked up though when i go back to it.
i just don't get it. this has happened to me on two occasions now, and my only fix has been to rebuild my desktop from scratch as a new user, and delete the old one.
i thought it may be a keychain issue, so i've tried to fix that by deleting the keychains that look applicable to .mac (not sure if i'm doing it correctly though) and i've fixed my permissions using disk utility. i've also re-entered my .mac password and user name info on that first sync tab in case something went suddenly funny (and that comes up as being valid...as does the list that shows my computer is still registered as a device that is included in the syncs to the cloud).
any ideas on what to do if it happens again? it's pretty tedious to have to rebuild everything to my preferences. the most frustrating thing is that everything will work fine for quite awhile and then it suddenly it just doesn't.

All,
I finally got my work G5 to sync up to .mac after I forcefully reset all my .mac data from my home PowerBook using its good local data. Then I was able to get back to my G5 the next day and let it re-sync to the "fresh" data now on .mac. It also happens that I had just done (a day or two before) a fresh system install of Tiger and then the 10.4.2 update on the PowerBook, so something in that process may have helped fix the original problem (whatever it was!). The G5 was also running 10.4.2, but I did not reinstall its system software.
Tracy, I wish you the best in syncing your data. If not running the latest Tiger, you may want to install that first. Good luck!

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