Hundreds of calendars, Hundreds of contacts, all the same...

Hi all-
It doesn't happen all the time, but sometimes I'll get a message saying that iSync wants to update my calendar with thousands of calendar entries, or hundreds of contacts, and it turns out, when I open iCal or Address Book, that all the calendars/entries have been duplicated! Sometimes many many many times (I had to delete the "Phases of the Moon" calendar a hundred times!).
I have several Macs that I keep in sync with iSync/MobileMe and I don't know if one of the machines goes berserk or what, but what is really troubling is that I can't figure out how to, when the dreaded "...will change more than 5% of your calendars" message appears, to tell it "NO! Don't do it!", and to basically refuse the change, and then turn around and re-push the "good" list.
This isn't limited to MobileMe calendars either, which is why I thought it was more of an iSync issue. Basically, can I prevent this from happening?

iSync's only purpose is for syncing contacts and calendars to non-Apple mobile phones via a USB or Bluetooth connection. If you are not doing that, then you aren't using iSync as it doesn't sync anything between Macs.
See here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2484
(There's a couple of system-wide sync settings in iSync preferences which are also in the MobileMe system preferences pane).
I'd suggest posting in the MobileMe forums which start here:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=116

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