Dot is shown every day in month view, even with no events

Hi All,
With the latest iTunes update, my outlook calendar sync finally works, however, it has now decided to put a dot on every day in the month view, even on days I have no events. Outlook is still fine, so it does not appear that there is a corrupt event or anything.
Has anyone else seen this and found a fix?
Thanks in advance

Here is the fix that worked for me. I hope it helps you out.
Busy dots on every day of the month?
The iPhone calendar month view shows a dot on every day you have an event scheduled. This allows you to know, at a glance, any "free" days you have with no appointment scheduled. There seems to be a bug with some type of all-day recurring events in Outlook that sync over improperly to the iPhone. This causes the iPhone to become "confused", and show the "busy dot" on every day of the month, whether the day has an event in it or not.
In order to correct this problem, you will need to find the all-day recurring event or events (could be more than one) that are causing this. Without a search function, it takes a little bit of detective work, but it can be done.
1. Browse backwards on your calendar until you find the first day of the month with no "busy dot" in it. This will help you identify when the problem started.
2. Next, find the first instance of the problem - that is, find the first empty day that shows a "busy dot".
3. Once you find that empty day, look at the days before to find an all-day recurring event (other types of events may cause this bug, but I only experienced it with all-day recurring events, such as birthdays, anniversaries, etc.)
4. Edit the event - the start and end dates of the event should be, by definition, the same day. The bug apparently causes the event to sync over with the end date a day before the start date. This creates a situation that the iPhone calendar cannot handle properly, causing the dots to appear on every day from that point on forward. Fix the end date to be the same as the start date.
5. This should fix the problem, at least until the next all-day recurring event. In my case, I had seven events I had to fix. Every time I fixed one, the empty days on the calendar would no longer show a "busy dot", but as I browsed forward, the problem appeared again. I noticed it appeared right after one of these faulty all-day recurring events. When I fixed the event, the days from that day on forward would correct themselves until the next faulty all-day recurring event. Once all seven all-day recurring events were fixed, the "busy dot" no longer appeared on any empty days.

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