Events in iCal disappearing after a month

When I look back in iCal to previous month and beyond, all the events that I added (non-repeating events) are gone. I see the Calender events we subscribe to (jewish holidays), birthdays and repeating events but not the ones I added.
I rely on my calendar to serve as my memory of past events so this is causing some issues. Any ideas how to stop this? My husband, who is much better at this stuff than me, has "tried everything" and has given up. Any ideas?

In the preferences menu for iCal - not System Preferences - there is an "Advanced" tab. Click on that and you'll find a number of options having to do with hiding and deleting both events and ToDos and what you want iCal to do with a couple of other features. Make sure that the "Delete events _ days after they have passed" check box is empty. If it is checked, that's probably the source of your problem.

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