migrate calendar from palm desktop to google calendar

I have 9 years of calendar on Palm and think it is time to move to another platform and get a new phone. I tried lots of things to migrate my calendar and contacts, some of which worked partly. For example, I tried Goosync and Softick PPP. The limit there is 999 days of past calendar, though (and you need to phone Goosync and ask for an upgrade to get over 365 days). It ran fine, but 999 days is not enough.

Long story short: CompanionLink did the job for me. I used Palm version 6.2.2 and Windows XP. It made short work of the migration. I had to run it several times to get the whole 9 years, as I suppose I overflowed the buffers, but eventually I got the whole Palm calendar migrated to Google Calendar. Before doing the migration I went through my Palm calendar and limited recurring events to 2 years, maximum. I don't know if that was necessary, but it seemed prudent.