On the abovementioned suggestion, I gave MissingSync for the Blackberry a try and, as a result, Pocketmac is GONE! I guess the old adage "You get what you pay for" is true (although I paid for Pocketmac a long time ago.

Setting up the "sync" between Entourage 2008 took a few tries but I seemed to work it out. Still can't seem to get the Entourage sync of Entourage's Notes to .Mac to work. But, since I'm truly concerned about my calendar and contacts, it is not the biggest concern.

Entourage Contacts and Calendar items sync to Apple's Addressbook and Calendar with no real issues.

In Entourage, I have a handful of entries that contain nothing but a name and a Blackberry PIN. The PIN is contained in "Home Fax" in Entourage and, when Entourage Syncs over to "Home Fax" in Apple Addressbook. When Markspace Syncs Apple Addressbook to my Blackberry, the PIN does NOT transfer. In the Blackberry entry, the name of the entry is there but all fields are blank. In Apple Addressbook, if I change the Name of the field from "Home Fax" to "PIN" and resync, the PIN shows up. Since I have less than a dozen of these entries and BB PINs amoung my colleagues rarely change (they're all switching to ... cough ... iPhones ... cough), it is not a big thing to manually go in and fix this.

Long ago, I abandoned Entourage's calendar in favor of Google's online calendar. As you may know, you can "import" Google calendar entries into iCal using web links. I did that, entering the web link for each of my calendar categories (personal, work, travel, etc.) and they all showed up in iCal. When I sync'ed, all sync'ed over to the Blackberry. In addition, the few Entourage Calendar entries I had also sync'ed over to iCal and MissingSync sync'ed these entries from iCal to the Blackberry.

No other issues spotted so far. Seems to work pretty well. Especially as the temporary fix I need.