Clashing Events in iCal

I have recently converted to Mac (yay!) and have created all of my calendars in iCal.
I'm wondering if anyone can help me with iCal and appointment clashing? My problem is that sometimes I have meetings which are fortnightly and some which are weekly. I don't want to end up booking a weekly meeting into a slot that is taken by a fortnightly client.
In Microsoft Outlook's Calender, whenever a recurring appointment was entered which would clash with another, it would alert me and ask if I still wished to add the appointment.
Is there any way that I can make my iCal do something similar?
Thanks in advance for any help!
Ashleigh

The simple answer is probably, not simply. Manually, of course, just look ahead a week before making a weekly appointment - if you have iCal set to week view this is easy.
You could put together a script to do it, but it is non-trivial, as iCal doesn't store each repeat of an event separately, but recalculates what should show in the current window from the original event, so your script would have to find all possible original events, then calculate forward.

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