Well...hard reset performed.

Still acts the same. Here the oddity in it all...

Emails - nothing syncs unless it is unread
Calendar - nothing syncs period
Task - nothing synced
Contacts - I had a lot of contacts that synced but by no means all of them - it is like it found another/older "contact" folder and synced it - that's the strangest one...syncing but not my current contact list!

Looks like a dead end right now. I got the phone for 2 main reasons - Wifi and syncing...sure wished I could sync this baby.