Special characters in phone number

Hi,
My company decided that all private calls should be made with the prefix *140# in the phone number, allowing seperation in the bill.
First I added this prefix to the phone numbers of all my private contacts in the Address Book, but when i performed a sync with my sony ericsson k750 i noticed that the * and # didn't go into the phone.
If I on the other hand added the prefix to a number on the phone and then performed a sync the * and # came along into the Address Book. But performing another sync after this deleted the * and # on the phone.
Any thoughts about this?
best regards
Oskar

Looks like a bug in Apple iSync 2.2. I would report this to Apple directly.

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