Solved the problem last night.

I was switching from a Palm IIIc and thought that I could just leave the Palm Desktop progam on my PC.

To correct the username issue you need to uninstall desktop and then go to the programs file and delete all of the Palm files that remained. This will force the reinstallation to load a completely clean Desktop program. Then the first Hotsynch will prompt you for the username.

This isn't a problem for me because I synch with outlook so I have little information in Palm desktop.

Hope this helps.

Ptrbilt