OK, so I got the contacts down also. I exported them from Palm Desktop as one big vCard. GPE Contacts couldn't import it directly because of an "invalid character" so you might have to import it to some less picky contacting software (I used KAddressBook) first and export again from there.

Again, the import does take it's sweet time and the system seems frozen, but faith manages

One point to add to last message, the todo items are imported alongside with the calendar events. You better purge all completed tasks, because at least for me they came in marked as not completed.