Palm no longer syncing

About a month ago, my Palm M505 stopped syncing with my G4 tower. At first I thought it was a problem with the syncing cradle being old, so I bought a new sync cable to test it. Behavior hasn't changed with the new cable, so now I'm thinking that I did some kind of update that has broken Palm syncing.
Here is the behavior I am seeing. I connect the Palm to the sync cradle/cable, which is already attached to the computer. I press the button on the cradle to start the sync. The Palm activates and starts the sync process, but the Hotsync Manager never comes up on my Mac.
Anyone have any suggestions?
Doc

This question seems to have petered out without resolution, but I have another wrinkle. Since I got a new Intel Mac, my Tungsten E2 will sync with the cable sometimes but not always. I switch USB ports, start hotsync manager, restart the computer, etc. Last time it worked after ten minutes of fooling around; this time I can't get it to go at all. As others have said, the icon comes up fine on the Palm, but no icon appears.
Bluetooth doesn't work either but there is probably another question for that.

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This handheld is associated with a differentprofile. To synchronize with that profile, close Outlook and synchronize again. To use this device with current Outlook profile, open the Hotsync custom dialogue and change the conduit settings to use this Outlook profile. See the Oultlook conduit help for details.
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If I understand correctly, then the old Outlook 2003 is no longer available to you. If that's the case, then all of your information should have been taken from your local outlook 2003 and put into the new outlook 2007 exchange. The only way you can sync with exchange is by using EAS. You will need the server address, domain name, and the username/password you use to log into outlook. I expect you may not have some of this information, which is where your IT department will be able to fill in the blanks. You won't need to use the Treo for email, but now that outlook 2003 is gone, that isn't an option for your contacts/calendar/notes anymore. When setting up the EAS on your device, it will ask what you want to sync, and you can select/deselect the options you prefer.
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I have a Palm Tungsten E (OS 4.5.1P) that no longer Sync's to my two Macintosh computers with OS 10.5.8 but still works fine with my PC computer. That's to say the Macintosh computers won't even acknowledge that I'm trying to sync and via versa that the Tungsten doesn't see the Mac's trying to sync. It's like I have no USB cable attached (which is how I have always synchronized it).
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Have you done a restart on the Mac's? Also on the device? Also have you tried a different sync cable?

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Now, there's the rub. A fix. Entourage syncs fine both ways to iCal and Address Book. I don't see why I have to use Sync Services anyway - with Entourage 04 and prior, the Entourage conduit used Palm OS and totally bypassed Sync Services (which is always running, and slows down the computer)
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Entourage data has never synchronized directly with the Address Book and iCal.
Traditionally, as with Entourage X and Entourage 2004, Palm user alone could choose to synchronize Entourage data using the Microsoft-supplied Entourage conduit to the Palm Desktop using that conduit, or by using the Missing Sync for Palm OS and that conduit.
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