Events imported from Outlook cannot be editted

We just got a new MBP, and had the Apple Store transfer a PC's Outlook Calendar to iCal. All the events are there, but none can be editted. They seem to have been locked somehow in Outlook, but none of us can figure out how.
I'm also going to check in on some Outlook forum, but I thought I'd post this here as well: anyone here ever experience this or know what it could be?

We can add events to this calendar, and they work fine. There's no Subscriptions.
BUT ... what we did find is that if we just select events, then hit Cut and then Paste, they stay in the right time and day as they were, and now can be edited!
It's some weird Outlook thing ... one more reason to have switched.
Thanks,
rb

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