I went ahead figured out how to remov the symbolic links, and I played around with Kpilot a little more. 1. I notice that the symbolic link "pilot" is not being created when I press the hotsync button. Is 10-visor-rules being used by the system? 2. In Kpilot, I went past the wizard and tried to establish a connection manually to ttyUSB1. In the log I noticed this: Pilot device /dev/ttyUSB1 is not read-write. Perhaps there is a permission problem? How can I make sure ttyUSB1 is user readable/writable when it's only created each time the pilot syncs? Dave