Entourage calendar in iCal is blank

I've got my Entourage calendar synced to iCal, so that I can update in Entourage, but alse iSync to my phone. This has always worked well for me, until recently... iCal does show an "automatically created by Entourage" calendar, but it's empty, no data!
I've tried various tricks posted in these discussions (including toggling the views, resetting sync services, restarting the applications...) but none seems to work.
Can anyone help me get the data from my Entourage calendar to show up in my iCal, and keep itself up to date (I can import in all in one shot as a stand-alone calendar, but that's not the point, I want to edit in Entourage)?
Thanks very much,
Toby.

I have this same issue. Can anyone help us?
I've never gotten mine to work correctly though. It just shows the calendar in iCal that's blank. The Address Book Application is completely blank.
Thoughts? Anyone?

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