No, I understood what you were talking about and I too understand your concerns about the "cloud" sync options. I was just asking in general if you had any ideas. For some reason I can't get either to sync or connect. Guess I'll keep Googleing it and see if I can find a solution. Thank you for your time in responding to my question.
Your Friend!
Seeing that you are having issues regarding sync, I wanted to inform you of something you might be interested in. Are you aware of Mark Space sync? I never could get HTC sync to work, ever! And before I decided to just utilize Google sync for everything I found Mark Space. It does work. Although, I still don't use it because I like the cloud. I am part of the anti-anti cloud coalition!
Link: http://www.markspace.com/products/android/missing-sync-android.html?source=picker_android