New 3gs iphone won't make it past syncing contacts, freezes after contacts

My wife has a Macbook and just got a 3Gs phone, however problem was same with 1st gen iphone. When she syncs, it only makes it to contacts, then sync freezes on Calenders. No calenders or anything else makes it. I Un-installed Microsoft Office. tried trashing some prefs. Mobile App Device Helper also keeps coming up saying it can't launch and lists error messages. I have given up. SHould I try doing an archive and install of Leopard?
Really look forward to any help there is on it.
Thanks.
Jon Pousette-Dart
best email [email protected]

wonwoman,
The iPhone uses SyncServices to sync calendars, and contacts.
This article discusses reseting SyncServices completely:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306484
Hope this helps,
Nathan C.

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