Colors changing on my calendar

What is Apple doing about supporting its clients with information on fixing the problem of colors changing on iCal?
Is this even on their radar?

This is actually not about the colors changing.  The colors change but it's because the appointments are being assigned randomly (it seems) to another calender like, Home, Work, Birthday.  If you uncheck the calender it will cause the events to disappear.  Check the calender again and the events reappear.
I don't know how the other calenders got turned on and how they linked to only some events.  If you click on Calender in the upper right you'll see what is checked.  try unchecking and see if your appointments disappear.  So for Apple, please correct this issue.

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