There is nothing special about birthday events that is not on other
recurring all day events. Open the events, check the recurrence and/or add
the recurrence and recurrence pattern fields to the view so you can see what
outlook is seeing. If you create a filter to show events in the next 7 days,
recurring events will display because they are 'ongoing' - you have to
filter them out using recurrence or categories fields or create specific 1
day events that do not recur.
I have noticed that sometimes the recurrence pattern field is empty when I
add it to a view. It doesn't seem to effect filters, but looking at the
recurrence dialog takes care of it.

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> Hi Diane, Sorry - I clicked the wrong link there! but thanks for your
> response :)
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> Thanks,
> Sam
scooper - 10 Jan 2008 15:19 GMT
Hi Diane,
Thanks for your speedy response. The problem was with the other recurring
events that I thought should appear if it shows all events which are
recurring, not the two birthdays which I can now see were behaving normally
(their recurrence pattern is as it should be).
That certainly seems an odd way of doing things.
Thanks for your suggestion of eliminating events that are recurring using
that field. However, I think that will eliminate recurring events that do
have an occurance that week (which I'd want to keep) and therefore manual
editing of the list is probably easiest.
Thanks,
Sam