Synchronising Entourage to Mac Address Book and iCal

I've done my initial sync between Entourage 2008 (Version 12.3.5), iCal and Mac Address Books but now if I update anything in the Entourage Calendar or Address Book, it fails to then send the info to iCal and Mac Address Book. Therefore, the info isn't making it to my iPhone which is updated to the Phone iOS 6.0.1.
Has anyone had the same problems and if so how did you fix it?
I've done a lot of reading to try and find out what is wrong but I'm just getting more and more frustrated. I did read something about having the Daylight Saving Modes switched on or off but can't remember if it was on or off.
I don't see why I should have to export/import ALL the info every single time. It used to work quite ok but just ins't anymore?? I think it somehow worked through iSync?
Oh, and on top of that, if I put anything on my iPhone Address Book or Calendar, it's not synchronising to my Mac! Actually, I've just checked and addresses are synchronising to my Address Book but not then Synchronising to the Entourage Address Book.
And I seem to be getting double ups of entries on my iPhone from my Calendar if I make a change, instead of updating the info in the actual event already created AND I get balnk "new events"! Rather annoying!!
I don't use iCloud either. Apparently that would just make things even worse.
HELP!!
PS. It seems the only way to sync things is by remembering what I've added to either Address Boook or Calendars on either one of the devices/programs and update it manually on all the others via exporting a single vcf file ...

The isync database, as I called it, is really just the master database from which ical, address book, bookmarks, etc., are stored, and it's used for syncing with the .mac service. Entourage can sync with it too, just go to the Entourage menu, choose Preferences, and look under General Preferences for Sync Services. Then check the boxes you want -- I just wanted the contacts to be the same in Entourage and Address Book so I only checked that one. The calendar is kind of funky because iCal uses separate calendars to group events, and I think if you check that box, iCal will then get a new calendar called Entourage, or something like that, in which all the Entourage events will go to and from. That is, I think Entourage will sync only with that iCal calendar, but I could be wrong about that since I don't use it.
Once you check the contacts box, Entourage will populate with all the contacts in your Address Book, and I think if you don't already have contacts there (that is if you've only been using Entourage for your contacts) then it will ask you if you want to put all your Entourage contacts into Address Book. I just don't remember.
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