Palm to Address book

Greeetings Mac friends,
I currently keep all my contacts in Palm Tungsten T3 and Palm Desktop 4.2.1
How can I transfer all my Palm contacts to Address Book?
Also is there a way to synchronize the T3 with Address Book AND the Palm Desktop every time I do a HotSync?
Thanks.
dual G4 MDD 1.4GHz Mac OS X (10.4.6)

You can certainly transfer your existing Palm Desktop contact records to the Address Book. Just launch the Palm Desktop and export them as vCard records using the Export… option under the File menu.
Select Module: Addresses, Items: All xxx Addresses and Format: vCard and then press the Export button.
Double-clicking on the resulting vCard file will launch the Address Book and offer you an opportunity to import these contacts.
You cannot, however, synchronize the same data type—contacts, for example—with more than one application at the same time, particularly not with iSync and the iSync Palm Conduit. While it is possible to create custom sets of non-conflicting identical data types with the Missing Sync for Palm OS, this practice can place your data at significant risk. Variations in data mapping in the conduits that synchronize such data, that fact that several releases of Palm contact applications are available, and limitation inherent in OS X applications like the Address Book can create issues involving missing fields, duplicated data and duplicated records.
I would advise you to pick a suite, and stick with it. You can choose from…
• the Palm Desktop with the standard Palm conduits and the HotSync Manager
• iCal and the Address Book using iSync, the iSync Palm Conduit and the HotSync Manager
• Mark/Space Contacts with the Address Book and Mark/Space Events and Tasks with iCal using the Missing Sync for Palm OS

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If you import according my previous post the comments will end up in the note field. You will also get the contact's Palm category in the note field. You may or may not want that info and you would have to manually go through and delete it. You can import another way to have more control over the imported data.
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