IOS 5 calendar bug: Floating Appointments

This is a bug with iOS 5's calendar that you can reproduce yourself. This bug was not in iOS 4:
1. Enter an appointment into iCal on your Mac running Mac OS X 10.6.8.
2. Make the appointment a FLOATING appointment, which means that its time will ALWAYS stay the same, regardless of which time zone you are in.
3. Sync your calendar using MobileMe.
4. Now go to your iPhone 4 running iOS 5.0.1.
5. Sync your calendar using MobileMe.
6. Make sure your iPhone's calendar settings have Time Zone Support turned ON.
7. Go into your calendar, and look for your floating appointment.
8. On the MONTH view, your appointment looks JUST FINE! The times are correct!! However, if you try to EDIT THE EVENT, you will see the gigantic bug crop up: the times are completely & wildly off from your original floating times. If you try to modify the times, then you will only mess up the times on the month view even more. There is no way to get the iPhone's calendar appointments to accurately reflect the floating time on both the month view and when editing the appointment. It is completely off.

Thanks for the info, I gave it a try but am still having the same problem as I mentioned before.
I believe your issue is a bit different than mine. My 3 outlook canlanders are there, two of them are displaying (my wife's calendar and my work), however the primary calendar I use in outlook isn't displaying. It shows that it is selected, however none of my events are there. I'm able to add new events in this calendar just fine, but all of my events that were there prior to the upgrade in iOS aren't.
I've already checked settingings to make sure it syncs all old data also, but it still doesn't display events from my main calendar.
So the issue isn't that I am missing all Outlook calendars, rather I am missing only one of the 3.

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