Ummm..............my experience is quit different. I started to re assess the situation.

I repeated everything GVM on N8x0 with N900, I found out the app installation is eye blinking fast on the N900, whereas installation was slower on the N800.

I follow this, thread # 9 to make an SD card then copied all .prc to /palm/launcher and that is all

Epocrates works,
Merck Manual works; I have to use 64 Mb to install Merck Manual, 32 Mb keeps on crashing.
Zlauncher works
Rescoe explorer works
Wifi hotsync had NOT even failed once, Address/Calender/Todo, sync everytime. I sync'ed with outlook, not palmdesktop

have not tried alarm or sound yet

Googlemap mobile failed to install

N900 1.2009.42-11

bun