Editing calendar colors

I am trying to change the color of the background of data items on my calendar. Right now I have changed it to orange using the 'Data Background Color' in the Calendar Attributes section of my calendar.
This makes all of them orange, but is there a way to make each one have its own color or better yet, have a color associated with a particular value so all entries that show up named 'dahlgren' are blue and all 'dalzell' are red for example.
Also as another question, is it possible to edit the format of the time that shows up? Right now it is like HH.MI.SS.XXXXXX, can I have it just be HH dropping the rest?
Here is a pic of what I have so far:
http://i46.tinypic.com/f3hnvs.jpg
Thanks for the help!
B King

Hello,
Enclose your data with some span tag and give it some class based on your data. Then you can apply whatever style you want using CSS.
For e.g. if calendar query is as
SELECT '<span class="cls-'||dept||'">'||first_name||' '||last_name||'</span>' Name, doj hiredate from employeeand if I have two departments A and B, then I will write some CSS for classes cls-A and cls-B to get required back-ground colors. Hope it helps.
Regards,
Hari

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AGGRAVATING PROBLEM:
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I spent a long time on the phone with a helpful Apple senior advanced specialist on this problem today. We conducted a very large number of "experiments". Our family has two iPads, 2 iPhones, and 2 iMacs, so it was easy to rule things in or out. I will present some information that may help.
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Apple has said that they are aware of this problem and their engineers are working on a fix. Historically, this can mean just a few days, or it could be a few months, years, or "whenever." They don't give estimates of when it will be fixed. Exactly WHY this is happening is unclear, but my guess is that it is a modification to the iCloud server code that Apple implemented without testing it thoroughly enough to discover this problem. Apple does not admit to that, of course and I don't know if I am correct.
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Note...I found I was stuck for now with the color of ONE of my calendars. If you are like me, you want to keep that one and work around it....
Backup first... Make sure that your iCloud copy of your calendar data has the calendar event information you want to save - even if the color is wrong. Log in at www.icloud.com and do a refresh to sync to the Cloud. Check over your calendars online to make sure the event data appears to be there for all of your calendars (even if their color or name is not what you want).
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4.     Still in iCloud.com, change the names and colors of any of the other calendars you wish to change. Delete any empty calendars that mysteriously appeared without your wanting them. Take note of all the calendars, names, and colors that are on the final list of calendars.
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