ISync wants to delete past events

Hi,
My p900 (Symbian) phone has deleted all past events in it's calendar. Now when I try to sync using iSync, the app wants to delete all the past events in iCal to make the device match!
I really want to keep my events. Is there a way of giving getting iSnyc to resore my phone with the iCal data or to just stop it trying to delete all my past events?
Thanks

Choose Reset Device from the Devices menu to make iSync send all data from your Mac to the phone again.

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