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Okay, I'm a little stumped. I've noticed that when an alarm sounds on my Visor standard, I get one of two popups to notify me. I'm curious to know why they're not all the same, when the events that are alarming are set up the same way (from what I can tell).

One is a dialog with one ("ok") button on it and the event details, and the other has multiple buttons, for snoozing or dismissing the dialog, and the event details.

Any ideas on why I would get two different kinds of dialogs for similar events?

BTW, I use Datebook+ and sync with Outlook 2k.

The alarm with just the OK button is from the standard datebook. The one with more options is from Datebook+.

I'm not 100% sure of this, but here's my theory:

If you add an event in Outlook, then HotSync it to the Visor, and the alarm goes off before the next time you run Datebook+, you will get the standard Palm Datebook alarm.

If you add an event directly on the Palm, or add it in Outlook, HotSync, then run Datebook+, it intercepts the alarms and will give the enhanced Datebook+ alarm dialog.

Simply run Datebook+ immediately after every HotSyc, and you should always get the enhanced alarm dialog.

I had the same thing, what I use is a program called 3Alarm. It lets you specify specific alarms for different programs. I have it set to ignore all alarms from the standard Datebook, and it plays Mission Impossible on the Datebook+ (requires extra alarms program)

Ryan