Bypassing iCloud to sync iCal by cable with my iPhone 3

I want to bypass iCloud and be able to Sync my iCal with a cable, currently holded in iCloud, so my iPhone 3 can't sync anymore right now.
I'm currently running Snow Leopard again since a few days, I tried Mountain Lion for a month and for several (compatibility) reasons I downgraded to SL. But Mountain Lion screwed up my iCal calenders which apparently are in iCloud now. This means that I can't sync anymore with my iPhone 3 because it has no iCloud. I want to get my calenders back to my local computer so I can manually sync it again using cable connection. How do I do this? I never wanted to have to do anything with iCloud, because it has no use for me, for my iPhone is too old and relaxed to handle it.
Any suggestions?
Also: There are now duplicates of what used to be one single calendar, with all containing different information, is there a way of merging them back together?

Actually the above appears to work - (note that I do not have any ical files on-my-mac, just the cloud and I might leave it that way, just do regular back-ups of my files to a desktop folder)
Make sure you are happy with your calender, then back-up /export ical files to desktop safe haven as per other posts in these discussions (back up all calenders separately.
Go to computer preferences the in computer cloud preferences un-check ical - this will delete ical info off your computer.
Then, leaving that un-checked, go into your icloud service and delete all calender info, or at least current stuff.. Log out.
Go back to computer preferences and icloud and check the box again - if it wants to merger let it. But there shouldn't be anything there. Log into icloud again, make sure that all events etc are still showing as deleted - ie you have an empty calender.
Now
Double click on your safe haven back-up files you saved on your desktop. Choose them one at a time and upload them to the relevant folders on the icloud. NOTE this may take a long time for each one if you, like me, have a huge calender going back many years (I should have really deleted earlier years). So be patient if you try to upload more than one at a time your laptop and internet connection will have a seizure.
Haven't quite finished yet, but the above looks like it will work. The files are slowly slowly reappearing in icloud - and no duplicates!
Lastly there are some excellent articles well-hidden in apples help files - see http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4967
and http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3999
Cheers, Tidy.

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