Sync Error for contacts and Calander

[Crosby-Droid]

I'm new to Blogs and Forums. if fact this is the first I've ever signed up for. I bought a new Motorola Droid from Verizon. my Google mail (Gmail) synced just fine but neither my contacts nor calendar will sync. I can't access android market nor does the Google maps work. I can access the internet and like I said I do receive emails. I went into the Verizon store and they couldn't figure out why. they told me it wasn't a problem on their end. do you perhaps know what might be wrong? the error it gives me on the sync accounts page is " Sync is currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly." but it has been two days.