The only way I was able to solve it was to rebuild my Axim. Kind of a pain, I guess, but I like messing around with it and rebuild every so often anyway, so not that big a deal for me. There's a (shorter) thread going on about this on Dell's site:
http://forums.us.dell.com/supportfor...message.id=750
and there I outline a brief description of the steps I took to resolve it. Modify the steps as required. If anyone has any questions, or better solutions, or news from Dell, post it.
jb