Well, I don't know what was wrong, but updating my package from subversion 43 to 50 has fixed the problem and my palm now syncs. Many thanks James for your help, Cheers, Simon "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." — Naguib Mahfouz ----- Original Message ---- From: James Ogley <james@usr-local-bin.org> To: Simon Roberts <thorpflyer@yahoo.com> Sent: Monday, October 9, 2006 12:51:10 AM Subject: Re: [SLE] gpilot-applet not working (hangs) :( was Re: [SLE] Re: How to start gpilot-applet/gpilotd? Simon, Try setting the timeout to 0 in gpilotd-control-applet. James -- James Ogley james@usr-local-bin.org http://usr-local-bin.org Packages for SUSE: http://usr-local-bin.org/rpms Help end poverty: http://oxfam.org.uk/imin