Syncing Leopard iCal/ Address Book with a PC?

I have a mac at home and a PC at work. Now that Leopard is here, is there an easy way to sync my contacts and calendars between the two? I am a .mac member but I doubt that will help me here.
I've been reading a little about LDAP/CalDAV and I assume the answer may rest in those two solutions but the technical goes a little over my head. Are there any cheap or free LDAP/CalDav servers with which I can sync Address Book and iCal on my mac and then a program on the PC that will sync with the server?
Right now I'm running Firefox and Lighting on the PC, but I would be open to other programs that may be better suited for this. I've been looking at something called Chandler which looks like it perhaps could be used as a bridge between the Mac & PC but I'm utterly clueless on how to make that work.
I would also love to be able to sync Leopard notes and To Do's with the PC but I'll happily start with my contacts and calendars. One day at a time.

Hi,
as I had exactly the same problem, here is the best workable solution I found (in absence of any workable, cheap online solutions):
If you have a Nokia Series 60 phone (e.g. N73 or N95), you can use the phone to perfectly sync contacts, calendar and to-dos. Just sync it via iSync with your Mac, then sync it via PC suite with Lotus Notes or Microsoft Outlook on your PC. There you go, everything's perfectly in sync.
I'm still looking for a good solution to share calendars online with multiple users, as phpicalendar does not work any longer for me in Leopard. Hope that some free CalDAV servers are offered soon.
Michael

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