Wanting One-Way Sync of Contacts and Calendars

Hi: I'm a long-time happy user of MobileMe. Just got my mom an iPod Touch so that she can carry her contact list around with her instead of paper printouts of phone lists.
I've set up a new user on my computer, transferred all her contacts to Address Book, and it's synced nicely with the iPod.
In fact, it's syncing over the air via MobileMe, so that even when I'm not here, she can ask me to update a contact or add one, and it will show up in her iPod later on. HOWEVER, she isn't very computer literate, and one key factor in her using the iPod is the confidence that she "can't mess anything up". Is there a way to keep the syncing one-way: push to her iPod from the computer or from MobileMe, but not allowing any changes or deletions from the iPod back upstream? Then her data would be protected...
Thanks!

Contacts, calendars, notes, and bookmarks are synced from (or to) your computer, so if you add, change, or delete them on iPhone or iPod touch, they are changed on your computer, and vice versa. By design, the syncing is bi-directional. No way I know of to change that.

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