Duplicates of calendar events

Trying to iSyn with my Palm has left my calendar littered with duplicates. I give up on syncing. Is there a way to remove the duplicates in my computer's iCal calendar without doing it one item at at time?

Wonderful, thanks John!!
A couple things to point out from my own experience:
-For some reason, double-clicking on John's script opened it using PPC rather than Intel on my Macbook Pro. Dragging it to an already open Intel script editor did the trick.
-The process is slow and processor-intensive. I thought it was broken when I didn't see things happening after 10 minutes of ~95% processor useage. Then I watched the calendar more closely, and sure enough, one by one the duplicates disappared. Not a knock on John's script- I'm sure this is just the way it has to work.
Thanks again for taking the time to share such a handy tool with everyone!
-Jeff

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Here is a pic:
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