Entourage & Exchange 2003 SP2

Hi there,
Hopefully someone out there will be able to help with this.
We are a predominately MS house, but have a PowerMAC G5 running 10.4.6 and Entourage 2004.
The MAC has been running happily for many months, then yesterday we upgraded Exchange 2003 to SP2 (Never had SP1 installed). Now Entourage doesn't work at all.
It seems to authenticate correctly when it first opens but doesn't actually synchronise the folders at all.
I have a feeling this is based on certificates, but my and the rest of the IT teams OSX knowledge is a little thin on the ground.
Anyone have any idea's or heard of this before?
Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
m0k0.
PowerMAC G5 10.4.6 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

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HI
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I have used my iPhone with 2003 SP2 and self signed certs. I am trying to understand more about your domain names - you say you don't own your domain, but then you say you are using Dyndns.
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first of all, i would like to tell you, that i am a german and my english is only quit good.
i bought an iphone and now i would like to use the feature exchange account.
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