Deleted Recurring Events still show on iPhone

I've had this issue for a while now, and hoped the 2.0 release would fix it. Seems to not have.
The issue is that if I delete a single instance of a re-occurring event in iCal, it still syncs to the iPhone. So a weekly meeting that gets cancelled still shows up, or when I delete all reoccuring items while on holiday, they still show up on the iPhone. If I delete them manually via the iPhone they stay off and don't sync back on.
I've done restores, erased all the .Mac and MobileMe sync data (several times), and it still happens. This makes me believe it's a bug and not a corrupted calendar file or something.
This is part of a more complicated set-up too for a married couple who run a medical business. I have two Mac laptops and two Mac desktops all synced to the same MobileMe account (for calendars and contacts). The two laptops also each have an iphone connected to them. The idea is they all share the same calendars and contact information (which is very complicated as they live part time in Canada, part time in US).
It's becoming a real nuisance. I can solve it by having them not use re-occurring events, but that's not a real fix as these type of events are necessary.
I've searched the web and these forums and can't find nothing related. I Can't imagine I'm on my own on this one. Thanks for the help.

Does the title of the event become prefixed with "Cancelled:" ?

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TRANSP:OPAQUE
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INTENDEDSTATUS:BUSY
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X-MICROSOFT-CDO-APPT-SEQUENCE:0
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