iPhone Calendar Holidays

My only major irritation with the iPhone has been the calendar. In the beginning, I subscribed to my Google Calendar through iCal and then synced to my phone. Of course, then you can’t add or edit entries. (And since you also can’t edit entries through the mobile gCal website, I found myself scribbling down appointments on scraps of paper in my purse. Doesn’t that defeat the purpose of a paperless calendar system?) A few months ago, I finally found a way to sync my gCal with my phone via Exchange. But it only syncs calendars you created — not subscribed calendars, like holidays and moon phases. When you’re using Exchange, you can’t sync anything from iCal to the iPhone (which I don’t understand… why are they mutually exclusive?). I tried MobileMe for all of five minutes before I realized that it didn’t solve my calendar problem either. Today, I: a) subscribed to the gCal holidays public calendar in iCal; b) exported it from iCal to .ics; c) imported into my own gCal; d) synced with NuevaSync. Now I have an eternity of holidays that repeat on a predictable schedule (Columbus Day, Christmas, etc.) and at least a few years of Easter.