Well, I have a Sandisk 256mb card, bought it before the Axim arrived thinking I was buying the best!
After experiencing the same problems as everyone else on here my experience is that they're ok, PROVIDING that you don't use large files, or, you transfer medium (3 or 4 mb) files one at a time. Mp3s for example, for me, if I transfer them manually one by one, no problem... and they work fine too. Try and slap a folder full of them and it's all over!