I can't sync calenders successfully

Please help. I can't sync calenders successfully. I'm using Outlook on XP and syncing to iPhone via USB with no problems. Now have a lovely shiny new i Pad and am trying to sync that with the i phone over i Cloud. I seem to be ending up with either multiple calenders, or some showing on one device and not the other.
It is proving extremely frustrating!
I would like just on calenders synced over the three devices. I don't need one called calender and another called work etc etc.
Any input gratefully received..

Hi burro!
What exactly appears to be happening when you try syncing games to your iPod?
Do you get any error messages? If so, please quote what it says, and when it happens.
As a basic iPod-game-syncing troubleshooting step, is your iPod a Fifth Generation iPod? If it is not, then sorry, it won't be able to play these games from the iTunes Store.
If you're not sure about your iPod model, see if this article helps you determine that:
Identifying iPod models
If you do have a Fifth Gen, then is its firmware upgraded to at least 1.2? (Preferrably, you would want the iPod's firmware to be updated to 1.2.1, which is the latest version, since that update fixed some problems that 1.2 brought on).
Also, if you are getting a message that says something like "you are not authorized to transfer games", then you'll need to authorize your computer.
To do that, from the "Store" menu in iTunes, click on "Authorize computer...", and follow the steps from there.
For general iPod games troubleshooting, see this article:
Troubleshooting iPod games
-Kylene

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