MobileMe sync suddenly failing

MobileMe synced between all of my devices (iPhone, Macbook Pro, iMac and iPad) perfectly fine until yesterday, when my iPad decided to give up.
First of all it was the Safari Bookmarks that no longer updated. I tried the tricks on here of disabling/deleting the account then enabling it again, no luck.
I completely removed my MobileMe account from my iPad and then entered my details in again. Now absolutely nothing would sync 'over the air'. Even after a lengthy wait.
I then tried a restore from backup. Again, no luck.
Finally I did a fresh restore of my iPad software. I managed to get Bookmarks and Calendar working okay, but now I have to sync Address Book manually.
It's all very strange and happened after things have been working fine for months. I'm up to date on all the software and haven't installed any new Apps over the last few days.
Probably not much anyone can do now, just checking in to see if anyone else had experienced something similar over the last few days?

The short answer is yes, people are having problems today with MobileMe. I was just told by an Apple support guy that the system has been problematic all day. But of course, they don't tell anybody that on the MobileMe website.
I just spent a torturous 10 hours+ trying to set up and enable MobileMe on my ipad and iphone. It was a total, unmitigated disaster despite valiant efforts by the tech (and several hours on the phone) to help me.
(Incidentally, there's no support phone number for MobileMe and even the other Apple techs can't call them. The MobileMe "chat line" wasn't even allowing me to "link" with it, whatever that means.)
Nothing we tried worked. At one point MM completely wiped all my contacts off my iPad. At the same time, it duplicated every single contact in my MM web account. So -- NO contacts on my iPad, DOUBLE contacts at me.com.
Later, it wiped out my iCal from my iPad. Completely gone; it was totally blank. I had to reload it from my Mac (after DELETING the mobileme account).
Now, I'm still getting horrible, horrible "ghost" effects even though I have mobileme turned completely off. I just re-synced my iPhone with iTunes and it duplicated every single calendar entry. Every. Single. One.
I'm ready to kill myself.
Apple should be ashamed to be selling such a wonky product. And to not offer phone support -- shame on you, MobileMe -- whoever, and wherever, you are.

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