Sync Manager doesn't actually SYNC

Am I correct in discovering that the Sync Manager v6.0x does not actually SYNC MP3 audio files to the Zen 32GB correctly?
I have spent a lot of hours trying to get my PC-based library sync'ed up with the Zen. Discovered earlier that you can add any folders you want when first filling the Zen with music but cannot tell the Sync Manager to use only specific folders there after. Well, that sucks. OK, worked around that limitation by copying only folders I wanted on the ZEN to a separate place on my source dri've and used that as the source for the Zen Sync Manager. So now I have to maintain this secondary library. Moving on....
I then used Media Monkey to make some tag changes to some of the source MP3 files, for example changed the genre and added album art to perhaps 30 files. File dates/times all got changed to reflect the tag changes.
Ran a LEFT TO RIGHT (source to Zen) sync and the Sync Manager discovered these source files were different than the Zen's files. So far, so good. Sync Manager then attempted to copy the files but {SCREEEEECH}? "ERROR: FILE ALREADY EXISTS" and the new file was not copied.
ISN'T THE POINT of the sync supposed to be that changed source files get copied to the ZEN?
What am I missing here? Yes, I have RTFM but I am willing to admit I am wrong if that is the case.
Note - I prefer not to use Media Monkey to sync the Zen because MM cannot maintain the source folder structure. Instead it insists on storing audio files in a genre or other tag-based named folder on the Zen. (Unless I am mistaken here, too.)
Signed,
Getting very frustrated with Creative Software so far.

Perhaps I need to give up the idea of maintaining the folder structure and look at using MM again. MM actually syncs only the changed files to the Zen the way one would think a sync tool *should* work?

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