Notes won't sync on iPhone or iPod Touch

Since July 13th, the notes on my iPod Touch 2g and now on my iPhone 3g will not sync. If I add any, they are deleted when I plug it in, but nothing else is lost. Can someone tell me what may be wrong? For a while, there would be a box popping up asking me to choose if I wanted the notes from the device, or the ones on the computer. As soon as I selected one, it would give me a server sync error (saying it couldn't connect to the sync server) and then go away and erase the new notes. But I haven't gotten that popup in a while.
I've done virus and spyware/malware scans, but that did nothing. What's up with this?

On my Macbook/iPhone, I've been having this same problem too and haven't found a solution.

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