have a saga but I'll jump in-

1) microsoft in their infinate wisdom didn't think you should be able to wirelessly sync your notes. If you are trying you cant. It should be able to do that with active sync or windows mobile device manager- but that's a waste. I'm lucky in that we use goodlink and that wirelessley sync all that microsot does plus your notes

for a task manager you can try pbar- it's freeware and looks really awesome but i couldn't get it to be stable on the saga (but as above i have goodlink and it's pretty messy and not yet supported on the saga so that might have been causing conflicts). It you dont mind paying i bought Spb's pocket plus and that task manager works fine. For the saga you need to download their beta from their forums and promptly uninstall their smart scrolling as it kills the mouse- so i assume same for the epix. It also has some other nice features but mostly i wanted the x-button task manager.