With new phone, calendar sync takes forever

Using iTunes 7.7.1 on Leopard I am trying to complete the initial sync with my brand-new iPhone 3G. It is currently stuck at synchronizing my calendars. I interrupted the initial sync process, updated the firmware to 2.0.1 and made sure that only one of my calendars is synchronized. It has been going on for well over 10 min now.
In another forum someone had a similar problem synching with Outlooks calendar on Windows. The suggestion given there was to eliminate recurring appointments with no end date. Does this advice apply to the Mac's iCal, as well? I wouldn't even know where to begin with going through my calendar hunting down those items.
Dominik Hoffmann

Getting the same problem, in my experience the synchronisation does end eventually but it can take several hours. If you allow the process to end then it does seem better the next time although you can't always arrange to have your phone tied up for a few hours a day.
Just for the record I've tried it using calendars without any recurring appointments and it is the same.
I am using iCal with shared calendars iCal server in case that is an issue.
Incidentally, I have also experienced appointments which do not appear to sync and one which seemed to disappear after a sync.
Overall the advice is: use calendars with care!

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