Use Palm Desktop 4.1.4 to sync Palm Vx to Clie

Question

I apologize in advance if this is the wrong group/forum.  It seems to fit better than Software for the mobile PDA device.  If I am wrong, I am open to suggestions as to a more appropriate forum.
I ran into the wonky digitizer problem that seems to afflict Palms, for which there are plenty of short-term software fixes, but for which the long term fix is to reseat the digitizer cable:
http://www.directfix.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Sc​reen=CTGY&Store_Code=GHT&Category_Code=_P5TAKE
The procedure looks positively barbaric.  Frankly, it looks like the Palm Vx was not designed for ease of home tinkering.  I decided that it was time to change PDAs (or move to a smartphone -- however, data plans in my 'hood are a gouger).  Fortunately, I was able to inherit a retired Clie PEG-T665C from a colleague.  It is much bigger than the Vx, but seemed much more straightforward to disassemble for the purposes of reseating the cable; for one thing, it seems to have a screw holding it together rather than glue all the way around.  Another impetus to move away from Vx to Clie is that the graffiti area of the Vx is getting very scuffed, and stylus motions are not registering well at all.  Not good for the blood pressure.
The only unknown was the migration of data from Vx to the Clie.  This "problem" was simplified by the fact that my usage of the Vx was extremely simple: Datebook, Addressbook, and Memopad.  Absolutely nothing more.  For my purposes, the Clie offers no feature advantages, so my switch is only for the ease of reseating the digitizer cable (if it is ever needed), and a more responsive graffiti area.  Since I wasn't using any of the Clie-specific features, I crossed my fingers and hoped that I didn't need to track down Palm Desktop for the Clie; it doesn't seem to be easy to locate, and I don't want to explore the wonderful world of having two Palm Desktop apps on my PC.
Instead, I put the Clie in its cradle, connected it to the USB, and sync'd (sunk?) it to Desktop 4.1.4 that I was using for the Vx.  I noted that the Vx differed in that its cradle used the serial port, though it is quite possible that this not a significant difference.  In sycing the Clie, I was asked by Palm Desktop to create a 2nd user, which I was sure to name differently from the Vx user; the Clie manual said that having two devices with the same name was a recipe for unpredictable results.  After creating 2nd user, I copied the *.dat and *.bak files for Addressbook, Datebook, and Memopad from the Vx user directory to the Clie user directory.  (I had to be logged into Palm Desktop as the Vx user for this to work).  This seemed to migrate the Vx entries to the Clie user, and sync'ing caused the entries to transfer to the Clie itself.
The only hiccup is that the first time sync'ing after copying the files yielded error messages that not all files got copied, though I'm not sure if that was from the Clie to the Clie user account on Palm Desktop, or vice-versa.  The 2nd time I sunk, I didn't get the error messages.  However, if there were a few dropped records, I probably wouldn't notice it from eyeballing the PDA.  So I'm not sure how confident I should be.  My uncertainly gives rise to three questions.
1. Is there any reason why I should worry about using generic Palm Desktop with the Clie, rather than *the* "Palm Desktop for the Clie" (i.e. Sony's Palm Desktop made specifically for the Clie)?
2. What is an efficient way to check that all records match between the Clie and the Vx?
3. Since I am unsure how much to trust the fidelity of the data on the Clie (with respect to the Vx), I would like to use both for some duraton.  Is there a way to use one Palm Desktop account for both devices without incurring the risk of "unpredicitable outcomes" that the Clie manual warns about?  Using one account sure beats copying files between the two accounts.  Copying files between two independent accounts also creates the real risk of having changes occur on both accounts -- I'm not sure how I'd reconcile that (if I was lucky enough to even notice that it happened).
I should also add that both the Vx and the Clie had Palm OS 4.1, though I'm not sure that makes any difference in easing migration and synchronization on the PC side of things.
Post relates to: Palm Vx

Answer 1

Actually, I just used unix commands to compare addressbook and memopad csv files from the Palm Desktop accounts for the Vx and the Clie. This convinces me that addressbook and memopad got properly migrated from Vx to Clie.  Unfortunately, exporting to csv is not an option for the datebook app, and the dba files contain differences in the nontext characters between the Vx and the Clie.  Is there a way to compare datebooks?
Thanks.