ICal Sync preference dropdown in ITunes refusing to budge

In the iPhone Info tab in iTunes, the preference that defines where to categorize new events created on the iPhone does not allow a selection anymore. The dropdown function appears to work properly, but once you make a new selection it doesn't actually change. It appears to have defaulted to the last calendar I created.
Anyone else having this issue?
Thanks.

i'm having the same issue. I ended up changing it over to sync selected, and selecting all the calendars. This allowed me to pick which calendar to add new events to. Odd work around.
I think I remember having issues with the "all" option when syncing addresses to my Palm before in iSync. Same fix applied then too.

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Actually pretty much all the appointments are already in iCloud as I exported them to Outlook for Mac as part of this recent burst of activity. So populating iCloud again will not be a problem, if I need to.
It is helpful that you have referred to Exchange. If I am hearing you correctly then you are saying that any appointments that I set up using email accounts that use Exchange can easily be set up to show on all of my devices. This means that if I set them up using Outlook for Mac, then I will not need to use Sync Services in Outlook for Mac to inform iCloud of my schedule.
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