Why Won't the iPhone Synch So Many Things?

Hello everyone!
Here's the deal:
I have a MBP 17" dual core. Running OS 10.5.1. iTunes v7.5, iCal v3.01, Mail v3.1, and 8GB iPhone v1.1.2.
I can't synch many things to the iPhone.
1. New iCal events and To-Do's
2. Mail. I get a message telling me: "iTunes could not synch mail accounts to the iPhone "dr.john1985's iPhone" because an error occurred remapping record identifiers."
3. Contacts are iffy, but they synch 80% of the time. So that's good. I'd like it to be 100%
4. The troubles started last November, it seems.
It will synch:
1. Photographs.
2 Videos in iPhone/iPod format
However synching newly made appointments on the iPhone back to the computer won't work. Contacts won't work either.
As I've said, neither my POP Verizon or my IMAP .Mac accounts can be synched.
Bookmarks for Safari will transfer over just fine, so no problem there.
I love the iPhone, but things are going a bit foobar on it. Does anybody know what the problem is and what, if anything, can be done?
Thanks Much.....John

{quote:title=rtln wrote:}The iPhone wasn't available last November so I'm going to assume you mean last month.{quote}
There may be a slight component of temporal disorientation here on my part. I think I refer to the fact that the iPhone took in my iCal's appointments, and vice-versa, through the end of November. Then the two stopped synching at the beginning of December. No joy.
{quote:title=rtln wrote:}It doesn't SYNC your email, only the email settings. You would be better off just entering the mail setting manually because there's a good chance the mail servers your ISP requires are not going to work over a mobile network. Everything else is probably a setting incompatibility . You have to specifically tell it what to SYNC. If you carefully read the instructions you may find your errors.{quote}
I think I found that entering the email settings manually and then unchecking "synch mail settings" worked pretty well the last time I tried to monkey with it. I'll try again and see how it goes.
The iPhone book that "should have been in the box" isn't much help for workarounds, nor is the "For Dummies" book. I downloaded the .pdf instruction manual from the iPhone web site at apple.com and will see if this has any clues about the synching and email problems.
Thanks guys. Any further ideas would be appreciated. I really like this iPhone, problems or not. I think this is a winnner, otherwise I wouldn't spend so much time trying to get it to work right.
-John

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