Alpha characters intrepreted as numbers in phone field

I cant imagine that I am the only person having problems with this, but have not been able to find any help on this issue...

I am a long time Outlook user and I have always stored descriptive text in my contact phone number fields - e.g. "925-528-8120 cell NOT for clients". I have this in a majority of my phone fields, and both my Treo and Blackberry would ignore these characters when dialing. When I ported this information to Gmail and then down to my Samsung Moment, everything went over fine, but now when I press a contact's phone # to dial it, the letters are interpreted as numbers and so the phone dials something like "925528812023556683672543687" (and of course the call does not go through). Does anyone know of any way to get around this, short of editing every one of my contacts to remove the letters (and losing this information?)

FYI, I have a Samsung Moment running 1.5 and I apologize if this is already
addressed in 2.0 Thanks in advance for your help.

 

Thanks for the input UncleMike, I had not actually realized that and it is a solution to the problem, just a VERY long and tedious one. I cant imagine going through more than 800 contacts with more than a couple phone numbers each, and cutting the text and pasting it into the custom field. By the way, my wife just got a new blackberry and her phone does the same thing (interpreting letters as numbers in the phone field.) Oh well, I think we both have a bit of work in front of us...