No fix for Categories / Calendar dilemma in 10.4.9 ?! Petition?

What is it going to take for Apple to support Categories from Palm devices to iCal?? I thought for sure that it would be fixed with the release of 10.4.9, but alas...
I know Apple reads these (or some of them at least) so Mr. Jobs, PLEASE release a iSync / iCal patch that will support Calendars created as Categories in Palm devices and vise versa!
I really do not want to have to ditch iCal & use Entourage...
I'm not sure how many people are affected by this, but I'm sure it's many. If you have this same problem, please reply and indicate so. I would love to see this simple problem fixed.

It's not beta software, it's release software. Inadequate given the improvements offered by Palm OS 5.4 or later, and clearly in need of an update, but release software nonetheless.
Who's blaming the consumer? I am simply saying that the expectations or demands of the consumer might be quite unrealistic. It is, after all, FREE bundled software. What else does it not do? It doesn't support users of danger hiptop, Blackberry or Windows Mobile OS devices. Should it? Are those reasonable expectations?
Should Apple bundle free software equivalent to Microsoft Office? What is reasonable? Are those questions that consumers should answer, or Apple?
I agree that it could be a much stronger product, but I'm not sure where they should draw the line. And consistent with their desire to encourage and support a strong, vibrant developer community, it doesn't make much sense to pull the rug out from underneath Mark/Space, Information Appliance Associates, snerdware, Spanning Sync and others working to extend the Sync Services framework.

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There are lots of  Discussions suggesting to export all calendars, delete and then re-import. Resetting the Sync History in iSync's Preferences is mentioned all the time.
I tried all that, but it never worked for me. Sometimes the calendars list in iTunes just went empty and other times it didn't show all my calendars or only very old, long deleted ones. Since the behaviour is the same with my iPod and my iPhone I could at least rule out a problem there.
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I am sharing my calendars via icalx.com and it turns out that sometimes iCal simply "forgets" the URL I have set there and reverted back to .Mac which I don't use. Reverting all the URLs to the correct values solved the problem immediately. All calendars do sync perfectly again now!
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Hi everyone,
I had this problem in the past with my iPod and suddenly the same is happening to my iPhone: Calendars are no longer syncing to my "iDevices". This started with 10.5 for me, but ymmv.
There are lots of  Discussions suggesting to export all calendars, delete and then re-import. Resetting the Sync History in iSync's Preferences is mentioned all the time.
I tried all that, but it never worked for me. Sometimes the calendars list in iTunes just went empty and other times it didn't show all my calendars or only very old, long deleted ones. Since the behaviour is the same with my iPod and my iPhone I could at least rule out a problem there.
But today I finally discovered the culprit:
I am sharing my calendars via icalx.com and it turns out that sometimes iCal simply "forgets" the URL I have set there and reverted back to .Mac which I don't use. Reverting all the URLs to the correct values solved the problem immediately. All calendars do sync perfectly again now!
So if you're having the same problems it might be a good idea to check the URLs of all those shared (and subscribed?) calendars in iCal...
Have fun!
Björn
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In iTunes, go to the "Info" tab and scroll down to the Advanced section. There are 5 checkboxes there and selecting one or more will overwrite the corresponding items on the iPhone during the next sync only. He had me check Calendar, then perform a Sync.
That worked! For US Holidays, but most of the birthdays were still one day off, except ones I'd entered manually in iCal. All of the misplaced birthdays are published by dates I've entered for contacts in Address Book on my Mac.
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