Did not use Backup Assistant as it was not available for my WinMo phone, apparently. I now use a program called gsyncit to sync my outlook contacts, calendar, tasks to my google calendar. When I set up the phone I told it to use my google account and the contacts and everything downloaded perfectly. BTW I did not like the stock calendar, etc that came on the phone so I downloaded Jorte from appbrain. Love it! Calendar syncs automatically. My tasks have to be synchronized manually and reminder alarms don't sync. This seems to be a problem with google though and not the app. gtasks also works quite well but manual sync also.
Not quite as seamless as my WinMo phone but the rest of the Android and Fascinate experience more than makes up for that, IMO.