Duplication of birthday entries in list

Question

I have noticed that birthday reminders populate the list of events with an item for every year. For instance, a birthdate in 1928 creates entries in the list for every year from 1928 to 2007. I have set preferences to delete events and tasks 30 days after they have passed, but this seems not to work with birthdays. Is this a normal thing or is there something that can be done to remove the old entries. All we are really interested in with birthday reminders is the next one.
(Note for what it is worth: I am syncing Entourage Calendars/Tasks with Sync Services but am using iCal as principal workplace. I am also syncing my Treo 750 phone with Sync Services via The Missing Sync)

Answer 1

Each birthday is a repeating event - there is only one copy of it (as with any repeating event), but any time an occurence of it falls in the current calendar display time frame it will display. Run this script and you should see each person listed only once.
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click here to open this script in your editor<pre style="font-family: 'Monaco', 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; overflow:auto; color: #222; background: #DDD; padding: 0.2em; font-size: 10px; width:400px">tell application "iCal"
summary of every event of calendar "Birthdays"
end tell</pre>
Ooops -something broken in the script formatter - copy the script into a new Script Editor window to run it.
Message was edited by: Austin Kinsella1