ICal not syncing to iphone

I'm creating notes in my iCal on my iMac. The changes show fine on
my calendar in my .mac account. But the changes won't show ont the
calendar on my iphone, even though I've selected to show the
.mac calendars. Help!

Here are a few steps to try.
1. Turn off .Mac Sync in System Preferences.
2. Just to be safe, open iCal and back up your calendar. File -> Back up iCal.
3. In iCal, export all your calendars as file(s). File -> Export.
4. Delete all your calendars from iCal even subscribed calendars. You will have to create a temp calendar, because ical will not let you delete all calendars
5. Now that all your calendars are gone, quit ical and reopen. This is just to make sure all calendars, except he temp calendar, are gone.
6. Now open applications -> isync and reset sync history found in the isync preferences.
7. After sync history is reset you can quit isync.
8. Import the calendars you just exported.
9. Open iTunes sync with iPhone, telling iTunes to replace all ical data on my iPhone . This is found in the advanced section ant the bottom of the info tab page.
Hope this helps.

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