Subscribed calendars push

Hi everyone,
Following subscribed calendars moving to mobile me in the 3.1 update I'm having problems.
First off I removed the subscribed calendars from my iPhone (accounts) so to remove the duplicates.
I have around 8 subscribed calendars but the main ones causing issues are my wifes 'home' and 'work' calendars which change/update regularly. When she creates an appointment it gets pushed to ical on my mac, but isn't being pushed to my iphone, which is where I want to see the appointment 70% of the time.
This is also happening vice versa for her iPhone and my appointments.
Any advice greatly received!!!

Hey guys-
I'm having the same problem, but I am researching when these subscribed calendars on the iPhone update. So far, I've been able to observe that they update when you turn off and turn back on the iPhone.
Next I see if the "Fetch" schedule has any affect. Check your fetch, if it's set to "Manual" my guess is it will never update. I'll confirm back once I know if it updates based on the set Fetch schedule.
js

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Greetings Cheryl,
The Birthday calendar in iCal s not a server based subscription which is what that article you reference deals with. The Birthday calendar feeds directly from the contents of the Address Book on your Mac.
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Then follow this article: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2676
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Create, and place this Apple script in your Appliations folder
Instructions follow the script...
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-- myself, who rely extensively on subscribed calendars. This kludgy solution copies events from a subscribed calendar
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-- Christian Lindemer, July 15th, 2008 {macosxhints (a) dethbunny (.) net}
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