I had already done what was suggested -- multiple times, in fact. But over the weekend, I noticed that my computer was taking a long time to sync to MobileMe, and was hung on the mail accounts (just like the iPod -- so maybe it was not the iPod, after all!). So, I went into resetting all sync items and selected from my computer to the cloud. Left it -- seven hours later, it was still syncing!!! so, I stopped that. Then I unchecked everything, and synced each item -- bookmarks, mail, keychains etc. one at a time. Each individual item synced in a short time -- like I would expect. Then I rechecked all items I wanted to sync, and tried the sync with multiple items checked. Worked in a matter of seconds. So -- I tried attaching my iPod and sure enough, the sync went just fine! Updated podcasts this morning for the bus ride to work, and still synced to my iPod in a matter of seconds. So, guess just forcing each item to sync individually worked (though I had tried that before, too). For now I am good to go. Thanks everyone for all your suggestions!
