I don't have all the pieces, either, but I got KPilot to work yesterday, including the contents of KNotes. Did your HotSync complete without any error?
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I'd like to remind everyone that the right place to ask KPilot questions is in a forum that actually gets read by KPilot developers and users -- that forum is the mailing list kdepim-users@kde.org.
If knotes is embedded in kontact you probably got a message like "Could not connect to KNotes" from the conduit; this has been solved in 4.4.7.