I tried connecting over WiFi - MPE sees the phone but will not connect to the existing user that is already created (says it can't connect to that) - but asks if I want instead to connect to /create new user.
So for now I am forced to do that and re-sync contacts etc.
No USB connection means that file sync is impractical due to data transfer speeds - so for now I will have to do that manually through Windows explorer.
Really hope this can be fixed soon.