It worked! FTP that is. I downloaded resco explorer 4.01.4 for the GVM and filezilla server for my PC. After setting up an account (not anonymous) I was able to ftp files from the GVM to my PC! This is monumental! I now have direct file access to and from GVM. Since I still can't get HotSync to work from the GVM, this is the only way to back up my data. Aside from copying the entire GVM virtual machine that is.

I still can't get my old notepad to open though. I had planned on syncing the notes to Palm Desktop, then transfer the account to my Palm Vx, hoping Palm Desktop would do some kind of conversion. Since the Palm Vx has an older version of Note Pad. But the latest version of Palm Desktop is missing Note Pad! It's treating it like an user installed app and simply backing it up. I probably have to find an older version of Palm Desktop.