Migration of iCal from PPC G5 10.4.11 to Intel iMac 10.6.6

Some calendars I tried to bring across from iCal in 10.4.11 on a G5 PPC iMac to 10.6.6 on an Intel iMac using Migration Assistant have disappeared ie they are not to be found on the Intel iMac. Where are they or where might they have gone?
One of the more important calendars that did not make it across in the migration was called Anniversaries&Holidays. This calendar, surprise surprise, contained items such as birthdays, public holidays etc that repeat on the same day each year, with a few variations such as Easter, which obviously changes date each year.
I have gone to the back-up of the iCal calendars I had on the PPC iMac in Users/MyName/Library/Application Support/iCal/Sources
and found 8 folders with names such as 9C19D09D-2AA6-455C-8CF7-7AF3C09C9D6A.calendar
This folder has three files in it, including one called corestorage.ics Is this the file I want/need?
Interestingly, I had 8 calendars, so I might expect each of the corestorage.ics files to correspond to each of the 8 calendars. However, when I open each of these corestorage.ics files, I get only a messsage saying this: Adding New Events This Calendar contains new events. Please select a destination calendar: Then follows the name of the calendar. All of the 8 corestorage.ics files appear to want me to save to the same calendar and therefore appear to be identical to each other. Where is the corestorage.ics file that corresponds to the original calendar called Anniversaries&Holidays? I don't have a clue what is going on here. Does anyone else and can s/he help? Many thanks.

This question was answered in another thread. The solution is here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12694507
Thank you Julie.

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