Unable to sync Outlook 2007 .pst file to iPhone 3GS

Hi,
I´ve been troubleshooting my problem for over a week now and getting exhausted with it.
I have gotten some results leading to what the problem is and I will try to explain in a easy way below.
I´m running Vista with iTunes 9.0.1.
The problem started when I bought a new laptop and I used Windows Back up to transfer all my files to the new computer.
So few days later I was syncing my computer with Outlook 2007 like I have been doing without problems on my previous laptop and I noticed that no new data was being transferred to the iPhone and back to the Outlook.
I started Troubleshooting by reading your Discussion forum and found few methods to try.
- Reset Sync History
and all the basic stuff that I cannot list here as I will now tell you what I have found out.
I created a new user account (Guest account)on the computer and a new email account user in outlook 2007. That creates a new .pst file for Outlook. I started Outlook and put in some contacts and few calendar items for me to sync with iTunes. I started iTunes and no problem syncing from the Guest Account.
Ok I have isolated the problem to the .pst file from my original account. Now what I could do it make a copy of my .pst file and copy that onto my USB drive and transfer it to the Guest account and add it to the Outlook Personal Folder and the problem would be solved.
I did so and of course it didn´t work.
So I tried the other way around to take the new .pst file and copy that and install that on my original account to see if it would be able to sync there and that wouldn´t work either, the iPhone looses all Calendar and Contacts when being synced in my original account.
I looks to me as iTunes on my original account is reading some .pst file that is blank and I don´t seem to know where it is as I´ve used "Search" to look for any additional .pst fines on my computer without any being found.
Any thoughts on this issue.

You've narrowed it down to your pst file, and the most likely explanation is that it is corrupted or has a bad record in it. This was a common problem a while ago when the phone first came out; I've seen it mentioned much less since. Usually the bad record is a contact; open Contacts in Outlook and check the first few entries; this is usually where Outlook displays bad records. Open each of them, make a change, and save it.
Another option is to export the PST file using Outlook, then import the exported file (as a new PST). This usually fixes corrupt files.

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