So a tech buddy at App State sent me a link from the Palm Pilot site and it DOES TOO synch with MS Office 2007 - Success! This was the highlight of my week - So now I have managed to transfer my address book over to the IPhone by way of MS Office 2007. I feel very clever for having been able to figure this out.
However, I gave up on the old printer - goodness, it wasn't THAT old, (2004), but several colleagues suggested it would be better to buy a new one rather than spend time trying to update the drivers. I did give it a try, but even the HP help desk guy in (probably) India was derisive about this old printer. I am sad that a perfectly decent printer can't be supported only because I unplugged it in Boone and tried to set it back up in Greenville!
So, after a whole month, I am now more or less back where I started from!