ICal & Entourage 2008 sync

I know that this isn't a Microsoft support forum but I'm hoping that an Entourage user out there may have some insight.
I have Office 2008 on my MacBook Pro. Under Preferences/Sync Services, I have the box checked to sync my Entourage calendar with iCal. But it doesn't work like a sync, it works like an over-write - meaning that the Entourage calendar is over-writing events in iCal, not syncing them. For example, if I add an event to iCal, it shows up perfectly there. But no matter what I do in Entourage, it does not show up in that calendar. But then if I add an event in the Entourage calendar and re-sync, that Entourage event shows up in iCal but the event I had added to just iCal (the one previous that didn't make it to Entourage) disappears in iCal.
Has anyone had any success?

Sue,
Wish I could offer some good advice, but the easy syncing of iCal and Entourage 2008 so far has been impossible if not a nightmare.
When you go to import in Entourage and iCal is NOT listed as "another application", we are in HUGE trouble.
A real shame that in today's world of "New Media" and PDA's like iPhones and Blackberry that the two billionaires from Apple and MS did not provide us with easy and simple export/import/sync tools.
Maybe they should rename Office 2008 to Office 1984

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1) I know Apple doesn't support Entourage, Microsoft does, but Microsoft is evil and I still need support so that's why I'm posting here
2) I know there are alot of threads talking about this around here but I really got lost in them, that's why I'm posting a new one.
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iSync supports a specific set of mobile phones....like my Razr syncs fine. There is a list somewhere search the Apple site.
I am pretty sure they DONT support Windows Mobile phones, as I recently looked into this to support a client of mine.
There is this tool, which gets really good reviews.
http://www.markspace.com/missingsync_windowsmobile.php
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http://supportforums.blackberry.com/rim/board/message?board.id=8300&thread.id=1317&view=by_date_asce...
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On a campus using Exchange 2007, I am using Entourage 2008 and sync to iCal 3.0.2 (Leopard) via Sync Services in Entourage's preferences. Both Exchange 2007 and Entourage 2008 have only been installed in the last two months.
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MY POSTING from yesterday:
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Apple won't produce a fix, because they want us to buy an iPhone. Therefore, it's down to the people at Mark/Space to try and fix this issue. Don't know how they can, because it really looks like an iSync problem, - Missing Sync works back to iCal and Address, but not on to Entourage.
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Entourage data has never synchronized directly with the Address Book and iCal.
Traditionally, as with Entourage X and Entourage 2004, Palm user alone could choose to synchronize Entourage data using the Microsoft-supplied Entourage conduit to the Palm Desktop using that conduit, or by using the Missing Sync for Palm OS and that conduit.
Later versions of Entourage 2004 provided for a means for all Entourage users to synchronize their date with the Sync Services framework, and therefore to the Address Book and iCal. Other compatible participants included the Missing Sync for Palm OS. iSync and the iSync Palm Conduit were involved only to the degree that Entourage data moved through the framework was thereupon synchronized to a Palm device using them. Users could bypass this process and continue to synchronize their Entourage data directly to a Palm handheld using the Entourage X or 2004 conduits, with this caveat: Entourage X users could not do so under Mac OS X 10.4.x from an intel processor-powered platform.
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1. take your complaint to them (and, good luck with that…)
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I have a new iPod nano and was trying to sync my calendar.
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Message was edited by: Marakel
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