Asian Characters in Anniversary Date??

[yaskcom]

I am trying to synch my T-Mobile MDA w/Outlook via Active Synch. I
have Outlook 2003 SP2

For some reason or another, when you look at the Details of some of my
contacts, the Anniversary date is prefilled with Asian Characters.
This prevents any further synching with the PocketPC. I can change the
Anniversary date to "none" manually but eventually it reverts back to
the Asian Characters. Does not happen to every contact. Just some.

Any ideas?

TIA
Lemonchicken