Palm has bigger fish to fry than worrying about iTunes
True, but it was so fun seeing them tweak Apple!
Well, maybe now they will work on an actual sync solution or buy one from Missing Sync.
If anyone hasn't checked out doubleTwist (www.doubletwist.com) this is the solution I am using right now, and plan to use for all my devices once I am comfortable with it.
I use ... rsync.
My solution is to drag mp3's on to the palm mass storage drive and it is dead simple.
It helps that I never got into the iTunes habit.
Glad that works for you. But for users who like smart playlists, there aren't a ton of stable (well, relatively - iTunes is a lesser evil) options outside iTunes.