Vista/Palm Lifedrive Incompatibility

First I'd like to express my upset over older Palms not being support under Vista. I've been the owner of 5 Palms over the years. Perhaps it's time to move on.
That having been said, I read on a thread somewhere where one installs the 6.2 software and then a patch from Pimlico Vista should be able to sync with older Palms.
I installed all of that and plugged my Palm into the USB cradle only to have Vista go looking for drivers, which, of course, it couldn't find.
So, I'm still stuck with being unable to sync my Lifedrive with my Vista OS computer.
Anyone have any other ideas?
Gary
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Gary, I wrote a thread explaining how to sync a TX with Vista64 via Wifi. Should be close to your LifeDrive.
http://forums.palm.com/palm/board/message?board.id=windows_hotsync&thread.id=44299&jump=true
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Welcome to Apple Discussions.
It's not clear how you attempted to configure your MacBook to support LifeDrive synchronization, but there are several important steps to follow.
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From the bottom up.
Palmdestop 6.2, on a 32bit HP Pavillion a1740n, When I plug the usb cable into the phone I hear a "dull thud" like and error, then it just repeats it self. I was able to find this information the other evening:
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For the time being, turn off the following conduits which do not report errors:
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It's possible the Hard Drive has failed on the device. They were a bit fragile.
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There's any number of situations that occur when a HD fails, having worked at one of those "Genius Bars" for a while I can honestly say that there's no across the board, failure indication. Some of the more common indicates were:
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