I've had various Palms, Sony Clies and Handspring Visors for many, many years. I used cradles to hot sync and never had a problem.

I think the issue here is that my PC recognizes the hot sync that is generated by the N800 and both devices show a successful sync completed. Yet no data appears on the N800. This is a known issue, since the Garnet site offers a work around. Unfortunately, that solution is NOT working for me or lots of others, apparently.