IPhone not syncing all events & some undeletable

Hello,
I'm helping my Dad with a problem he's having with iCal. Since I updated his iPhone 3g to 4.0, his phone & iCal aren't syncing properly. Some events aren't syncing to iCal on his iMac yet they are undeletable on his phone.
After searching these forums, I find that he's not the only one with this problem, however, none of the other threads are resolved so I'm bringing it up again in the hopes that someone has figured this out.
By the way, he's got a simple sync: iMac (running 10.5.8) to iPhone 3g running (4.whatever is current -I just ran the latest updates this afternoon when I was over there), no 3rd party calendars or mobile me with which to contend.
This afternoon I tried all the tricks I could think of or find here; reset sync history, turned off sync calendars in iTunes/then turned them back on, ran iCalDupeDeleter, threw away the cache & preference files as directed in another thread...
Thought I had it at one point when one of the erroneous files was gone after one of the syncs... just as I was about to announce my victory, it reappeared on the phone before my eyes, yet still doesn't sync or appear in iCal on the computer.
Over the weekend I've got to try exporting then reimporting each of his calendars & checking to make sure nothing is listed under "Birthday" in Address Book.
Any ideas?

I'm a "me, too" on this, and it does seem to be an issue with iOS4, the latest update in particular. Everything was fine between my iPhone 3GS, MobileMe, and my iMac running the latest OS. I was thrilled, since I switched from a Palm Centro that gave me fits over syncing the things I needed, since I'm not in an office all day and do some traveling. It was great, but now I have duplicates and missing events. My iMac has the correct information, usually, but the phone is missing some and has lots of duplicates... what gives? Guess we're all pleading for a solution here.

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