[ElfN]

Gail, I found the solution that doesn't litter out title with (doc). I couldn't believe noone thought to tell me to check it. <shakes head> I had to literally stumble on the answer! First, set the output to ereader and ascii.

Then, create a directory in which to save the files you're want to transfer to your Palm.

Now open Calibre. In Preferences, go to Saving Books to Disk. Make sure the checkbox for Update meta in saved copies is checked and click apply. Close Preferences. Now select the books you want to transfer to your Palm, right click and click save to disk. In the popout menu select either of the Save only PDB selections and save to the directory you created for storing them.

When the save is complete the directory will open in a new window. Grab the files you saved and drag them into your Palm Install Tool. I have a shortcut on my quickstart bar and I drag the files straight from the window to the shortcut.

It works! I've now got 648 books on my Palm! And they're sorted by Author (last and first initials), Series Name (abbrev), Series Number and the title. I still need to do some tweaking to get just what I need as the name of the file can't exceed 26 characters and I want as much of the title as I can get in my Palm display (two separate plugboards), but I'm now at least, getting results I can work with.

Nori