3G iPhone Problems with iTunes 9.2: synch problems

About 3 days ago I started getting this error message when I tried to sync my iPhone 3G with my Outlook 2007: "iTunes could not sync calendars to the iPhone [name of phone] because the sync server failed to sync the iPhone." I tried various ways to try to overcome this including a hard reset of the phone, going through all the settings in iTunes, uninstalling/reinstalling iTunes, etc. etc. etc. Nothing worked. So I called Support.
The first thing the Tech asked me is whether I installed OS4. I said no, it's too buggy on a 3G: I had tried soon after OS4 came out & my phone got stuck in backup for over an hour, after which point I aborted the process. Plus what would I gain on a 3G? Nothing.
We talked for a while & he admitted that the issue probably was the fact that the latest versions of iTunes (9.2+) are "supposed to be backwards compatible" with the 3G OS, but that it's really more designed to work with OS4. So the first thing he would have to advise me to do would be to install OS4.
Since it was a given that I wasn't going to do that, his response was a verbal shrug and a passing remark that I might have to find "some way" to downgrade my 9.2 version of iTunes to 9.1. But of course he couldn't tell me how to do that.
Meanwhile, during my long talk with Support my Better Half did a Google on "downgrading iTunes 9.2 to 9.1.1". The result was: http://hackstor.blogspot.com/2010/06/downgrade-itunes-92-to-911-macwindows.html
I followed the instructions on that site & they worked. Curiously enough, my Better Half hasn't been experiencing any of these problems because he did not update his iTunes or try to dl/install OS4. Hmmm... Is there a pattern here???
My conclusion: I won't be updating my iTunes or iPhone OS until all these bugs are worked out. Will I be buying a 4G in the near future? Hmmm....
Disclaimer: I am not an iPhone Tech nor did I sleep in a Holiday Inn this week. I can only tell you what happened to me & how my problem was solved. YMMV.

Yes, I don't disagree with the first part. However, I could sync my iphone (to itunes 9.2.1) when I had 4.1 installed from another computer).
I think that I am limited to an old os (10.4.11) on my mac as it is old (pre-intel) and therefore I can't update my OS. If this isn't the case, then an update to my OS could solve the problem. I'll check the requirements of the newer OS now.

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