Birthday's in iCal right. Birthdays on iPhone wrong!

I track birthdays in iCal using the Birthdays calendar. I sync iCal to MobileMe. I then sync my iPhone with MobileMe and I display the Birthdays calendar in the iPhone all calendars view.
OK so far.
So, I have three contacts with birthdays on consecutive days in November. Let's call the Tom, Dick and Harry:
Tom's birthday is the 22nd of November, so it says in iCal.
Dick's birthday is the 23rd of November, so it says in iCal.
Harry's birthday is the 24th of November, so it says in iCal.
These are the correct birthdays! My iPhone, however, disagrees. According to it:
Tom's birthday is the 24th of November.
Dick's birthday is also the 24th of November.
Harry's birthday is the 26th of November.
It's the same all year. There seems to be no pattern to the degree of incorrectness (my Mum is made 2 months younger, which will please her no end).
What on earth is happening?

Looks like this is an oft observed bug, discussed in depth elsewhere:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2471359&tstart=0

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