Can't turn off default alarm. Aggrivating!

I have my iCal set up to sync with Google Calendar because of my Droid. I have 6 calendars, and by default iCal adds new events to my Google "personal" calendar. This is fine.
What is not fine is that any time I create a new event I find myself stuck with a blasted Email Alert and Message Alert. I do not want them!
I've gone into preferences, I've checked the box next to "turn off all alarms"... if I create an event and I create it under, say my "Work" calendar, then the alerts don't show up - they don't exist. That's what I want! Just for some reason I cannot set up my stupid default "Personal" calendar to create an event without setting up alerts.
Help!

Ok, this can be ignored now. When I made my post I found a similar topic and it linked me here:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/11546885?messageID=11546885&amp%3b#1154688 5
It wasn't an iCal issue at all, it was Google. All fixed! No more blasted alerts that I don't want/need!

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