Can't restore iCal events

I backed up to .Mac three days ago. When I booted up today, all my events were missing. I had 4 calendars. Backup shows that I backed up 68 K three days ago, but when I restore, nothing comes back, even though the backup window claims the restore is successful. Also my download window opens up with my .Mac member name and a piece of paper and says "preparing to download", but just sits there.

I found them on the hard drive in the Documents folder where Backup 2 had put them.

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