Syncing with iCal via iTunes fails

since 3 weeks I'm not able to sync my calendars between my iPhone (3G, iOS 3.1.3) and iTunes (v 10.4.1 for MacOS) and iCal.
The iPhone is shown in iTunes, I can start syncing and the progress of the process is beeing shown in iTunes. iTunes also tell me, that the sycning was succesful. But unfortunatly the syninc of the iCal-entries with the iPhone fails: Neither new dates, applied at the iPhone are synced to iCal, nor dates from iCal are shown on the iPhone.
Until now I tried to solve the problem by this ways:
> Overwriting the calendars on the iPhone with the calendars of iCal
> Deleting the calendars from iCal and re-importing the entries to iCal from the Backup bevor syncing
> Deleting the iPhone-Account from iTunes
The syncing of the adressbook with iTunes is possible. And it is possible to sync iCal and the Adressbook with macbay.
I dont't want to update my iPhone to iOS 4
Do you have some ideas what else I can try?!

Try this:
Close iTunes, launch iSync from your applications folder, reset sync history, re-boot your computer, launch iTunes, connect your phone, hit the sync button.

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I get it on my windows itunes (which is where I set-up my account and sync most things)
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Had no problem before a day or so ago?
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