No birthdays show up on iCal

None of the birthdays show up on the birthday Calendar in my iPhone. They do show up on my regular iCal on both of my other Macs. How do you get them to work? I checked all the settings over and over on the phone. Any ideas? Thank you.

If you have all iCal calendars selected to be synced with your iPhone under the Info tab for your iPhone sync preferences and all calendars that are available in iCal on your Mac are available on your iPhone except for the Birthdays calendar, try resetting the sync history on your Mac, which is done via iSync preferences with the iSync application in your Applications folder.

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