Problems connecting Palm Pilot with USB

[Dave M G]

Ubuntu Users,

I have a Palm T|X, and I'm running Dapper, (I think Flight 5, though I'm 
not sure).

I'm trying to get my Palm Pilot to connect, but I'm having problems. 
Gnome-Pilot, J-Pilot, and pilot-link see nothing.

The instructions I've followed I've gained mainly, but not exclusively, 
from:
http://webpages.charter.net/decibelshelp/LinuxHelp_UDEVPrimerMisc.html
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-77387.html

However, differences appeared between my situation and the instructions 
given:

On the first of the pages, it says one needs to set the permissions for 
/dev/pilot by editing this file: /etc/udev/permissions.d/10-udev.permissions
However, I did not have a /etc/udev/permissions.d/ directory. I went 
ahead and made one, but will the system find that directory since I just 
made it up?

Another difference is that on both pages, they say that ttyUSB0 and 
ttyUSB1 in the /sys/class directory should be created when pressing the 
HotSync button on the Palm device, and go away when the Sync completes 
or times out. On my system, those files are created the moment I plug 
the USB cable into the computer, and don't go away until I disconnect 
the cable.

And lastly, I get this odd error that I completely don't understand when 
I simply went looking to see if there was a /dev/pilot entry:
dave at homebase:/dev$ ls pilot
ls: pilot: Too many levels of symbolic links

Thank you for any help.

Here is some other information about my system:

dave at homebase:/sys/class/tty$ ls -l ttyUSB*
ttyUSB0:
total 0
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2006-03-31 10:41 dev
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 2006-03-31 10:41 device -> 
../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.0/ttyUSB0
--w------- 1 root root 4096 2006-03-31 10:41 uevent

ttyUSB1:
total 0
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2006-03-31 10:41 dev
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 2006-03-31 10:41 device -> 
../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.0/ttyUSB1
--w------- 1 root root 4096 2006-03-31 10:41 uevent

  looking at the device chain at 
'/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb3/3-1':
    BUS=="usb"
    ID=="3-1"
    DRIVER=="usb"
    SYSFS{bConfigurationValue}=="1"
    SYSFS{bDeviceClass}=="00"
    SYSFS{bDeviceProtocol}=="00"
    SYSFS{bDeviceSubClass}=="00"
    SYSFS{bMaxPacketSize0}=="16"
    SYSFS{bMaxPower}=="500mA"
    SYSFS{bNumConfigurations}=="1"
    SYSFS{bNumInterfaces}==" 1"
    SYSFS{bcdDevice}=="0100"
    SYSFS{bmAttributes}=="c0"
    SYSFS{configuration}==""
    SYSFS{devnum}=="9"
    SYSFS{idProduct}=="0061"
    SYSFS{idVendor}=="0830"
    SYSFS{manufacturer}=="Palm_ Inc."
    SYSFS{maxchild}=="0"
    SYSFS{product}=="Palm Handheld"
    SYSFS{serial}=="PN70UBL5V099"
    SYSFS{speed}=="12"
    SYSFS{version}==" 1.00"

dave at homebase:/dev$ more /etc/udev/permissions.d/10-udev.permissions
#set Palm Pilot rw
pilot*:root:usb:0666

dave at homebase:/dev$ more /etc/udev/rules.d/10-udev.rules
#Dave Palm Pilot

BUS="usb", SYSFS{serial}=="PN70UBL5V099", NAME="pilot"

--
Dave M G