Syncing my Centro on two computers

I am trying to hotsync my centro on two different computers. I have desktop ver 6.22 and hotsync manager 7.0.2 installed on both computers. When I sync on my "main" computer all is well. This is the computer I first sync'd my centro on. When I try to sync on my second computer the syn just hangs up on "Completed task 2 of 12..." Now I tried setting the conduits according to the instructions on the palm website but when I right click on the hotsync tray icon I get nothing like the menu shown in the example. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Jim
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