Problems with SmartDial Phone application on 8525 Cingular

Very annoying. If you are dialing via the default phone application on the Cingular 8525, any contact entry that you have that has a '.' or period will fail.

A lot of my contact are delimited by a '.' meaning:

+1 (408) 555 - 1212

is entered in Outlook as

+1.408.555.1212

then when you press the green 'send' button on the 8525, and enter the letters either through the on screen dial pad or via letters, it will review the phone number as "+1.408.555.1212". however, once you press talk/send, it will fail as it dials the number as:

+1 040 805 5512 12

Replacing all the '.' period with a 0.

This is running the HTC phone application 2.5. It does not do it on my Cingular 8125 which dials fine, nor does it do it on my Motorola Q or BlackBerry Pearl. All these are syncing and sharing the same Exchange/Outlook Contacts.