Hello, again!
We may have hope! I am refering to the Palm Installation CD. Of course, mine is at home, but when I reran the installation is when I received the option to use Outlook or to use Palm Desktop for contacts. It then loaded Chapura Mirror on my desktop (which syncs outlook) instead of Palm Desktop.
I just checked the Palm website and Chapura Mirror is still bundled with a new purchase. Since you should have a clear license to use it, check out Chapura's site as well for some additional upgrades or manuals.