Question about future of push email & syncing with Mac and PC on iPhone

I have two questions that I've tried to get answers from at two different Apple Stores, but I get many different answers - so I thought I'd give it a shot here.
1) I understand that push email is coming in the 2.0 software release this summer - but will that only be for Microsoft Exchange customers? My small business uses DreamHost (a private mail server company) that runs postfix under Debian Linux and supports Courier IMAP...our IT guy told me this, I'm not sure what it all means - he's a PC guy...
2) Can I sync my iPhone to my Entourage Mail & Contacts from my Mac AND sync my iTunes from my PC? Is this a bad idea?
THANKS!

What happens when you try to sign in with the new account on your phone? Any error message?

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I'm new to both Mac and iPhone. I have used iTunes for just music and sync to a Nano but just got a MacBook Pro and today an iPhone 4.
I have set up my email in the MacBook Pro and it works fine. Only my roadrunner email and the trial MobileMe accounts.
Next I set up iTunes to sync. It appears I'm getting email on my iPhone both when I sync iTunes and when I get new mail from the server.
Is it better to not let the emails come in normally and just sync media in iTunes?
I did think about using MobileMe for this but with all the problems others are having, I don't want to mess with it for mail, contacts and calendar.
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OK first thing to know is that Windows machines can not (without $$$ software) read Mac formatted iPod. However Macs can read and use Windows formatted iPods just fine. So go ahead and format the iPod on the windows machine.
Next, you will want to transfer your library from the Mac to the Windows machine. If your library is smaller than the total capacity of the iPod, then you can plug the iPod into her Windows machine and then configure it (a checkbox) to enable disk mode. Eject the iPod and plug into the Mac. The iPod should show up in the Mac's iTunes, but also on the desk top as a disk drive.
At this point it is a simple matter to copy the iTunes folder from the Mac onto the iPod. Eject the iPod, then plug it back into the Windows machine, and copy the stuff off the iPod (as a disk drive) to the Windows hard drive.
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http://www.tunequest.org/migrating-your-itunes-library-from-windows-to-mac/20061 105/
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Geek to Live: How to move an iTunes library from a PC to Mac (and back)
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