How do I remove calendars or even ical?

Hello all.
Ical is currently driving me up a tree. I have an iphone 3gs on ios4, iphone 4 and ipad 1 both on ios5 and a mbp on lion. Syncing via icloud is turned OFF. Sncing (for the sake of the 3GS) via mobileme is turned OFF. There is no timemachine on a wireless system anywhere.
So, I delete all calendars on the ipad once I've set it in airplane mode. They stay deleted. iphone, same on both.
The MBP is a whole diferent story. The calendars sitting in the group On My Mac keep bouncing back in multiples. I delete them all (bar one) and they come back. I delete again and they come back. In subscriptions i ave 5 subscriptions to birthdays. I delete those, they bounce back in. I go to ical>prefs and untick the "show birthdays" and it bounces back in a couple of seconds later. Untick again and it's back again on it's own. And so it goes.
I've tried deleting the entire ical application - says lion needs it.
I've tried deleteing it in terminal as root and it dissapears but guess what - IT COMES BACK! It's like a bad horror movie where you can't get rid of the monster.
What do I have to do to clear my ical from all the multiple duplicates of calendars and subscriptions that seem to be breeding and generating more calendars and subscriptions? Do I really have to do a clean install of the entire mac and all ios units?
Please help!
Thanks in advance

Hi, let's see if I can get you out of there ;-)
Please try in Finder: Menu "Go to", choose "Go to folder" and type ~/library. After hitting Return, you'll see the contents of that folder. Look up "Calendars". Since you do not want to keep anything in iCal you may take all files/directories located in "Calendars" and drop them in the bin. Before doing so, you might want to cancel any subscription to public calendars from within iCal: Go to the list of calendars on the top-left of the main window, ctrl-click on any entry under "Subscriptions" and choose delete.
Good luck,
Norbert

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