Thanks, Murduck! It looks good... specially the part about the phone looking for your mail when it's in suspended activity (no screen)...
I had tried the permanent mail connection with the Treo and my Yahoo account, and it really became annoying because of all the memory my mails took up... so with the MDA I set up the MSN mail that works automatically with my hotmail account (which doesn't get much use, except from family)
Let's see what I end up doing after I've learned the ins and out of my new equipment.
Thanks again, and take care........ Manny