Pilot-link problem with Etch?

[Carl Fink <carl@fink.to>]

I'm running the current Etch with kernel 2.6.11-1-k7, and recently lost the
ability to USB sync to my Palm Tungsten T3.  When I press the Sync button on
the cradle, the /dev/pilot device appears, but all attempts to sync using
pilot-link or its various front ends (jpilot, gnome-pilot) fail with

Error read system info on /dev/pilot
pilot_connect: Unknown error 4294967291

Is anyone else seeing this?  Any suggestions for debugging?
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Carl Fink                                         carl@fink.to
If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be.
	-Bruce Tognazzini