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SharePoint reported error (0x80004005) "Failed to copy one or more items." - Outlook 2007, WSS 3.0

The following error message is generated when connecting a SharePoint (WSS 3.0) calendar to Outlook 2007 (SP2):
Task 'SharePoint' reported error (0x80004005) : 'Failed to copy one or more items. For details, see the log file'.

Error logs (found at %drive%\docume~1\%username%\locals~1\temp\) indicate the following:
Error mapping item #90
Error mapping item #91

The primary issue at hand is that "intermittent" events appear to not be synchronizing with this calendar when added through Outlook. In my best observation, it seems these events are copies of meeting requests pasted from a personal calendar to the SharePoint calendar (which are not supported as outlined in the following Microsoft article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926440), but I am unable to determine which meeting request(s) are causing this issue, if any.

In my troubleshooting, this issue seems to be limited to a specific calendar in SharePoint affecting multiple persons in the same manner. The calendar has been removed from Outlook and re-connected several times producing the same error each time. Believing that the "&", which was originally included in the title, may be causing the issue, it was replaced with the word "and". However, the same error is produced when removing/re-connecting calendar in Outlook.

This exact error has been outlined in a Microsoft article (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/919042)affecting Outlook 2003 with a 'fix' of using Outlook 2007. However, all persons accessing this calendar are already using Outlook 2007 with latest updates.

My last resort is to delete this calendar from SharePoint and create a new one (and advise persons not to copy meeting requests to this calendar). However, any assistance in resolving this issue without performing this action would be sincerely appreciated.

Additional system information:
WSS 3.0 is installed on Server 2008. We are using Exchange 2007 running on Server 2008. All persons accessing this calendar are running Windows XP SP2 using IE 7.0 and Outlook 2007 with latest updates.
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I've seen this exact behaviour with Contact Lists where the website address field wouldn't copy contacts because the website address that was input was as www.somewhere.com, instead of http://www.somewhere.com - by missing the protocol/http part in front, it kacked out the whole synchronization.
While that doesn't help you directly, perhaps a similar situation is occurring where values you or someone are entering into the fields are not actually appropriate datatypes or are missing some sort of data validation.  Were any calendar columns dropped, renamed, etc. from the default content type?
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