Managing iCal calendars on iPod touch

Question

I know there have been plenty of topics in this discussion started by folks trying to get the color codes on their iPod touch and iPhone calendars to match what they see in iCal and MobileMe. I've battled this issue pretty much ever since I bought my first-generation iPod touch as a replacement for my Palm Tungsten E PDA. I don't want to start another one of those fruitless discussions.
I'm pretty much hard-coded when it comes to the colors I associate with my calendars on desktop and laptop (red=national holidays, blue=household events, green=office events, purple=school events, etc.), and seeing different colors on the events on my iPod makes the Calendar app confusing, distracting and hard to use. I've realized I'd almost rather not check my schedule on my iPod, because I can't scan events the way I'm used to. As a replacement for my Palm PDA, in other words, I'm afraid my iPod's a failure.
Unless, that is, someone knows of a way to turn the colors off in the Calendar app or, more likely, can recommend a better third-party solution in the App Store.
My first-generation touch is already feeling outstripped by recent hardware updates, and I'm coming to realize I'll be looking for a replacement before much longer. If I can't figure out a good way to make an iPod touch sync with my calendars, my next handheld is going to be something other than an iPod.

Answer 1

First I'd like to clarify some nomenclature. I switched from using Now Up-to-Date and Now Contact to iCal and Address Book. In Now Up-to-Date, there was only one Calendar, although you could have miltiple Calendar files with different names. Within a Calendar, you could have many categories of calendar entries which could be customized as to type style (Regular, Bold, Italic, etc. and Color). I had used it for over ten years and during that time had moved several times and lived overseas in two countries. Thus I had on category for Spanish Holidays, another for Portugues Holidays and many others, with a total of about 12 categories.
When I shifted to iCal, I archived all old calendar entries but my new iCal Calendar ended up with 12 sub calendars. I have culled/combined them to the following list: Club Events, Holidays and Birthdays, El Paso events, Medical-Dental, On-Screen Reminders, Special Days, KId's Events, Work, Theater & Entertainment, Travel plus subscriptions to Birthdays (direct from Address Book), Holidays in Spain, and Holidays in Portugal.
That is the description of my iCal Calendar as seen on my Mac Pro and MacBook Pro, automatically synched through Mobile.Me.
On my iPodTouch, I see at the top, All Calendars, then From My Mac, below which is one subcalendar entitled All from My Mac, and below that is [email protected] (MobileMe), followed by all of the subcalendars I have described above.
I would like to get rid of the From My Mac entry so that All Calendars and MobileMe are one and the same. After reading other threads, I have decided the only way to do so is to talk to a MobileMe expert.