Be patient. You have 24 hours for someone to outbid you. Check this item, about to expire: Edit... And now the item you had bid on is up to $96, and you're home free!
If your contacts/calendar are all still on your Handspring PDA, all you need to do is hotsync and it will all be copied to your reformatted drive.
Yes, I had to sign up for Sprint Power Vision...that was $25 per month. You have to be in a Sprint service area, I guess. I haven't been anywhere yet that I couldn't get on the net.