It appears that the problem has something to do with a corrupt entry in my address book (obviously; duh!). If I entirely delete the contents of my address book then the Grafitti problem goes away.
It took a lot of steps to zero in on this fact, and for the record, neither the Palm Desktop “Tools | Options… | Tools | Check and repair any corrupted records” not Pimlico’s DBScan software could spot any records which are corrupt.
I called Palm Support and spoke to a really helpful chap who basically confirmed that I’d already taken all the steps he’d have walked me through and that the quickest resolution was to re-add the records one at a time until I found the problem.
To be sure, I deleted all the records using Palm Desktop then sync’d – and LO, the problem was gone – note I exported all the records as a backup first) – so now I have to re-add the records one by one…
In fact, to save time, IÂ’ll be adding the first 50% of the records – and if the grafitti still works IÂ’ll continue adding 50% of whatÂ’s left I can find the problem in the most efficient manner. It seems my studies of sorting algorithms have hitherto untapped benefits for normal human endeavour.
It appears to me that the problem you had is not the same as mine, which is that the writing area is desensitized to the point that it will not recognize the letters unless I do Graffit, which I’m good at, several times, and even then it may not register. Have you had any problems such as this?