Notes in iCal events disappear

I've had trouble with notes within iCal events, as well as the parameters for repeating events and catagories, disappearing for no apparent reason from my Mac, iPad or iPhone (the phone seems to be the most frequent culprit). They all sync with each other, and regardless of which device I use to enter the event note, random ones will just vanish. Has anyone else encountered this? I use these event notes for accounting purposes, as I book clients with iCal. It's rather inconvenient when they're suddenly not there anymore. Thanks!

I sync iCal between multiple iMacs, a MacBook, an iPhone, and an iPad and I have the same problem. Any thoughts/feedback would be greatly appreciated!

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