Gmail calendar not syncing, now can't set up

Hi,
I'm on my second Playbook. I physically broke the last one (sniff). I had the gmail calendar sync working when I set it up in early Feb, but I noticed yesterday that it wasn't syncing anymore. Before anyone asks, I do have the latest OS.
I did some digging and here are my steps so far:
I was getting an error message when I double checked the settings and password for the account and clicked save. Email and contacts work correctly.
I checked the URL in my computer browser to see if I could get to it from my network. I used https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/[email protected]/events and after typing in my user and password, the file downloaded correctly. Opening it in notepad showed it was the right file and contained my calendar data in CalDAV format.
I then tried deleting and re-adding my gmail account. That's when I got this error: "Account Gmail - <my email address> - <my email address> failed testing with current settings." So I no longer have access to my gmail calendar or any of the entries that were there, because I already deleted the account.
I even tried KB33093 and that did not work for me either.
Is there something else I can try or is that it until the next OS update?
Note: I have a workaround by syncing my gmail calendar with a hotmail calendar and connecting to that on my playbook. It works, but it's not ideal as I can't edit the gmail calendar which is my main calendar.
Update: I was able to download the file at https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/[email protected]/events after typing in my user and password. A posting on another board thought that maybe the Playbook was being blocked by Google, this proves that it is not.

TexTucker wrote:
We must be at cross purposes. Gmail is imap and does not provide Activesync. Hotmail provides Activesync for mobile devices. Does your friend's playbook work if he deletes the account, restarts, then tries to add it back with caldav?
I think you are misinformed. According to Google: "Google Sync uses Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync® to let your users synchronize their Google Apps mail, contacts, and calendars to their mobile devices." Here's the link. That is the service that has been converted to CalDAV for calendars, imap for Gmail and CardDAV for contacts. Hotmail/Outlook are ActiveSync as you say. I can't see Microsoft not using their own product, lol.
I don't think my friend would be willing to delete his accout and restart, lol. His PB is working after all

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