Items blanked out on my Palm desktop calendar

I am running Palm.exe 4.1.4 software on Windows 2000. In the calendar function, I enter about 4 items per day. Recently, some of the items have "disappeared" from the desktop window. I can see the item's time allocation on the calendar date, but no text. The text still appears correctly on my Treo 680. (I am using the color-coding function for different categories.) Any advice?
Post relates to: Treo 680 (AT&T)

Sounds like you may have private records set to mask.
1. Open Palm desktop
2. Select View
3. Make sure its set to show private records
Post relates to: Centro (Sprint)

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I had looked at this in response to another post, and didn't notice the same problem. But then I went back further and noticed it sure enough...it's only occasional.
I haven't done any kind of analysis as you have apparently done, mostly because I don't really use the desktop application except occasionally.
Thought maybe it sorts repeating events differently than single events, but I've seen it both ways, so that doesn't seem to be it.
It doesn't bother me enough, but it certainly seems like it would warrant an email support request to Palm, to see if they have an answer.
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