Problems sync emails

[MyX5]

Hello,

I just got a hand-me-down Dell X5. Everything works great except I cannot get my emails to sync properly. Here is the scenario:

I have emails in Outlook 2003 I want to copy to my X5, I have different folders off the root inbox folder which organizes my emails i.e. personal,work,jokes,etc. The default setup of active sync is to sync from the root folder (inbox). I have many emails which I dont care to save on my X5. I want to be able to sync emails from the designated folder i.e. jokes.I already try going to options and checking on ONLY the folders I was sync, the problem is some emails I want to save are 6 months old. When I changed the setting in options to last 6 months, it starts to sync ALL emails from the last 6 months!

I also try to copying the emails I want using explorer, but I cannot get them since they are located in my local settings and I believe is due because is my work desktop which I don't have full priviledge to.

OS - XP Pro
Outlook 2003
MS Active Sync v 3.8.0


Thanks,

Jamil