Exchange 2003 SP2: 'Cannot get mail' - another one...

Background info:
I am running a budget exchange system, much like other small businesses out there. I have a self signed cert from an internal CA that i have installed on the exchange server and installed on the iphone. I dont get any cert errors when I log into OWA or OMA with SSL from safari on the phone so it would seem the cert is installed properly.
The only thing that likely differs from my environment is that we have a dynamic IP and use a pop3 connector to download pop3 email into the respective recipients mailboxes from a cheap pop provider and hence we dont own our own domain, instead we use dyndns.org to to update dns records (which works flawless/seemlessly)for us when our dynamic IP changes. So our email addresses are [email protected] while our owa/oma address is a totally different domain - comapnyname.domain2.com. I cant image that this would matter but I figured I would put it all out there anyway.
I have run this test numerous times:
https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/
and my server passes with flying frigging colors, I just have to enable the ignore trusts option as our cert is signed by an internal CA (like I said, budget).
So, WM devices, entorage, and outlook with rpc over https all work flawlessly. But this FRIGGING iphone wont. I get through the exchange configuration just fine using various settings. I have tried it with and without the domain option, and I have tried entering the username with and without the DOMAIN\username.
Every possible combination goes through fine, in the setup. Then I end up with the same result. After the setup finishes, I go to the inbox for the exchange account and it says up-to-date with no items. no contacts or calendar items download either. After a while, if i go back into the same inbox I get the "Cannot get mail" error.
I have been googling this for days and I have yet to find a solution. Not to mention I, myself, am an MCSE w/ messaging and I have yet to come up with a solution on my own. My server works fine, nothing wrong there - it works with every device but this iphone. The only solution I have seen so far is to pay 175 bucks to one of these iphone messaging specialists to have them fix it, which isnt happening. Any advice you guys may have would be great... thanks.

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.
I want to assume that you do own the domain name, just not a static IP to go with it. If the IP changes frequently, push will not work very well.
If you are using a self-signed cert then you MUST import the root cert that did the signing. This a the public part - not the private key. If OWA and Exchange are different domains then they have different root certs.
If you can hit the Exchange server domain via IE, you can view certs, then save the root. Then email the root to the phone (using gmail or some pop3 account) and import it. That will fix any cert issues.
I mention this, as you don't mention anywhere that you have imported the signing certs root.

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