Calendar colours are different in iPhone than what's on my iCal

Why is it that the colours that I assign in iCal on my computer is different than the colours I see for the same events on the Calendar in the iPhone?
Say, for example, I set an event for MISC for a whole day for today, and make it Red in my iCal - when I look at it in my iPhone, it's Orange. When I set it as Green, then it's Blue. When I set it to Black, it's Red. When it's Blue, it's Purple. And so on.
Is there something wrong with my iPhone, or is there a patch?
Thank you

"It's not a bug, it's a feature."
You can't easily fix this - only Apple can do so! They've released a kbase article with the explanation excuse that it is normal for the calendar colors not to match.
There is a workaround, although it is something of a pain. The iPhone will apply calendar colors in the following order: red, orange, blue, green, purple. (If you only sync one calendar, it's blue).
Depending on the colors you want, you first need to create 'blank' calendars in iCal to 'use up' unwanted colors. Then, you need to sync the calendars, one at a time, in color order.
Go to the Info tab (in iTunes with the iPhone connected and selected in the devices list). With the Sync iCal calendars box checked, UNcheck all the boxes and sync. Then, check the box for the calendar you want to be red. Then sync (if you look on the iPhone at this point, that calender will be blue, since it's the only one). Then, check the box for the calendar you want to be orange, then sync. Repeat for blue, then green, then purple.
For example, if I want to have two calendars, Home colored blue and Work purple, I would create three new calendars - empty1, empty2, empty3 - then check the boxes in the following order, syncing between each: empty1, empty2, Home, empty3, Work.
You only need to do this once (as long as you don't delete the empty calendars in iCal) - after that, iTunes 'remembers' the colors and maintains them.
Also, you can submit feedback to Apple: http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html.

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