Hang-up Entourage by iCal

I am using Entourage as my main environment for mail, addresses and calendar info. Unfortunately I can't sync Entourage with my mobile (Sony Ericsson P1i). So I started using iCal and Address Book of Leopard. This has proven to be really very painful! I switched on the Sync Services in the preferences of Entourage ..... don't do it!!! It gave all kind of unexpected results and at the end it hangs-up Entourage when you access Calendar, you have to go back to an earlier version of the Entourage database (when you backed it up with Time Machine at least otherwise you have a serious problem).
It is really a shame that there is no easy way to sync Entourage with Symbian mobile phones. And I don't want to use iCal and Address Book because they are still too poor in functionality.
Any advice?
Thanks, Thon

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