I am atempting to import my contacts from a Plam TX to GPE contacts on an N810 OS2008. I have discovered many of the problems cited here but I have had some sucess using Notepad files, obviously with the .vcf append, using Windows XP pro as follows:

1. In Palm desktop select contacts view and select all
2. Export as a vCard file
3. On N810 in file manager, copy the .vcf file to local folder (eg: documents)
4. Open GPE contacts, menu, Tools, Import Vcard

I made a partial .vcf list to experiment and have brought in about the first 30 contacts and they display more or less ok. My whole file did not import, probably because of the two image files that Palm puts in by default in contacts.

The following format works fine except as noted in previous posts, the City and state are transposed in GPE:

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:2.1
Noe;John
FN:John Doe
TITLE:Account Manager
ORG:A Company
ADR;WORK:;;123 Long Rd;Anytown;NC;12345;USA
TEL;WORK:999-555-1234
TEL;CELL:999-555-1235
END:VCARD

Note that if you use other fields in the source file you may or may not get them through (see earlier posts).

Something else I've discovered is that if there are any other characters in the phone numbers except digits 0-9, dashes - and brackets (), the content will initially display ok BUT when editied in ANY way (ie: opened and saved instead of cancelling) any 'wrongly' formatted numbers completely dissappear! In fact, if there are odd characters in the phone number you can't even see them in edit mode.

I have just downloaded the cleanup spreadsheet (thanks given) and will see how this works out.

I could probably write a spreadsheet to transpose the city and state but perhaps this has already been done. OK off to work on this...