Finally, success!
A little history: I was having problems syncing my Outlook Calendar and Contacts to my Charge. I was able to successfully sync them from Outlook to Google Calendar and GMail contacts, but for the life of me they would not sync over to my phone. If I entered a new calendar entry either in Outlook or GMail it synced to my phone. However, none of the original entries that were 'imported' to GMail or Google Calendar appeared on my phone. This happened both with one-time and recurring events. I do not use Enterprise for Outlook as I am in business for myself.
Now for what I did: In the end, I made an edit to the first entry line (the title) in each of my calendar entries (in Outlook) for the next year, including all recurring events. I had to open each event one by one (a real pain in the a**). I needed to change a new character and not add a space to be able to sync from Outlook to Google and then from Google to my phone. If I did this, the entry was successfully and automagically sent to my Charge when I forced the sync to occur. This took me the better part of two plus hours, as I am a heavy calendar user.
For my contacts, I made a change to the first contact in my contact list in GMail. I entered an email address in the email field for the very first contact in the list. Once I did this, ALL of my contacts synced to my phone. I don't know why, but they all now appear.
I wonder if I would have made changes to a calendar entry in Google Calendar if that would have made the difference and caused all of my calendar entries to sync to my phone. I don't know, but if anyone has this same issue perhaps the first thing to do would be to change one of your Google Calendar entries in Google Calendar that were imported from Outlook.
I really hope that this will help others that have had issues syncing Outlook to their phone. The Google syncing applications work, but don't work perfectly. As for me, I'm glad I worked it out, as this would have been a deal breaker and I might have returned to the Blackberry platform.