Time issue in calendaring applications (iCal & Entourage)

I am experiencing some weird behavior when I edit or create new calendar entries in both iCal and Entourage. The event only shows the minutes filed (00-59) and no hour. I initially noticed the problem in Entourage and assumed it was an Office issue. After uninstalling and reinstalling office I realized it was happening in iCal as well. It is only happening in one user profile on my Mac so I know it must be something in the user profile that is causing the problem. I've checked all the settings in Date & Time and International but everything looks okay. I'm not even sure when the problem started or if it is affecting other applications.
Has any one encountered this before? Thanks in advance for any guidance!

Thanks sig! I've scoured both but haven't been able to find anyone having a similar issue. That said, my suspicion is this isn't an iCal or an Entourage issue since it is the same behavior in both applications. And since it doesn't happen in other user accounts, its clearly something within his user account. I'd venture to guess if we looked deeper we'd see the behavior in other applications that have similar functions (like Now Up-to-Date or something.) I suspect that it could be something like the International system preferences, that handle the time formatting, having a corrupt preference file or something like that. Unfortunately I haven't been able to identify which com.apple preference file handles the international settings or other time formatting functions.

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