Calendars in iCal disappeared

HI
All of the individual calendars I had set up within iCal (they show in the left panel) have disappeared and when I open iCal all the days are blank....no events or appts. are there! If I click on the 'search results list' button a list of all my appts. comes up. If I double click on one appt. or event for each month then the entire month gets filled in again.....until the next time I close ical and restart. Then it's blank again. So I know my appts. are there but the calendars they were in are gone. I don't have a backup within iCal....tho it is backed up to .Mac/MobilMe. I'm reluctant to sync it again as I'm afraid it will just remove them all from the web site and then I'll have nothing.
Do any of you have any idea how they disappeared or how I can get them all back again since all the events are still "there" someplace and are still color-coded according to the calendar they were in?
I also sync with my Palm LifeDrive via The MissingSync and I sync on my iPod. I don't know if one of those syncs changed iCal or not but iCal on this main computer is supposed to be the one they all sync to.
Any help getting the calendars back with the info still in them would be appreciated.
Thanks

Hello,
I found this in iCal Help:
I don't see my events or To Do items
If you don't see or are having trouble finding an event or To Do item, check the following:
Make sure there is a checkmark by the calendar (in the Calendars list) that contains that event or To Do item. (To see if a calendar in a calendar group is checked, click the triangle next to the calendar group to open it.) You can only see events and To Do items on checked calendars.
If you see a scroll bar on the right side of the iCal window, drag it up or down to see times on the calendar that aren't visible.
Enter the name (or portion of the name) of the event or To Do item in the search field at the bottom of the window. For more information about using the search field to find events or To Do items, click "Tell me more."
If you're in Month view and you see three dots (an ellipsis) at the top of the day, there is not enough room to show all the events on that day. To see all the events in Day view, double-click the ellipsis.
An event that spans more than one day appears only on the day it starts in Month view. To see the whole event, switch to Week view by clicking the Week button at the bottom of the iCal window. Or, you can make it an all-day event by selecting the "All-day event" checkbox in the Info drawer.
If you don't see your all-day events, make sure Show All Day Events is checked in the View menu.
If you've changed the time zone for a specific event or have changed the iCal time zone (and are viewing all your events in a different time zone than your computer's time zone), make sure you're looking for the event at the correct time. iCal adjusts where the event appears based on the iCal time zone and the event's time zone. To see the iCal time zone, look in the upper-right corner of the iCal window. (If you don't see a time zone pop-up menu, iCal is displaying your events based on your computer's time zone in Date & Time preferences.)
Make sure that your date, time, and time zone are set correctly in Date & Time preferences. (Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Date & Time.)
Carolyn

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