Hi Ima, I really appreciate your time spent helping me. I did the netstat command and it does show that jpilot is listening on the correct port.
However when I did the tcpdump command it just gives this message :

tcpdump: listening on eth1, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes

but no other output after I initiate the hotsync attempt. My network interface is eth1 so I did change it in the tcpdump parameters (I'm assuming that using eth1 shouldn't matter otherwise?).

???