Michael,

Thanks for your patience and info.

I already did the wireless sync upgrade and dst upgrade.

I redid the microsoft dst patch...EXACTLY as you suggested in three posts up...both with the phone on and disabled.

In both cases, here is what happened:

I am in central time. I changed it to eastern time and hit ok when dialog box came up. Soft reset. Went back to clock applet...and guess what? it shows as CENTRAL TIME.

Ok, I thought...I am stupid. Didn't change it. So.....I redid it, making sure it said Eastern Time (phone disabled), hit ok to approve the change (when I did in the applet, the clock moved ahead one hour)...closed out of the applet, waited a minute, soft reset, got back into the applet and AGAIN..it is back to CENTRAL TIME.

ARGGHH....suggestions?