Failure to sync across .Mac

I have a set of calendars that sync to two computers across .Mac. I made a change in one, and then received a notification of conflicts that need to be resolved on the other. I resolved the conflicts and then did a sync, but each time, I get the notification that there are still conflicts to resolve.
Any ideas how I can get these calendar changes to propagate better?
Thanks.

The short, though not explicitly always accurate, answer answer is: it takes time for changes posted elsewhere through the push-pull nature of the synchronization framework to be distributed across your synchronization pool. How much time, depends largely on the composition of your pool, and how—and how often or at what intervals—you synchronize.
When you see a phrase like "Refreshing contact groups and calendar information…" appear in iSync, that indicates that iSync is interacting with the truth database on your machine, in anticipation of posting additions, changes or deletions to the Address Book, iCal or a supported device. In terms of your 'local' machine where this database is maintained, the Address Book, iCal, Entourage, iGTD, Daylite or other applications, along with iSync, are also 'local' and often interchange data in a manner which is not obvious to users, whenever an application is active in the foreground or background. Other components, such as additional machines, .Mac via .Mac Sync, Plaxo or similar synchronized 'services,' mobile handsets and smartphones and other supported devices are essentially 'external' and changes made on them may take longer to be fully distributed.
In the case of two machines, one must interact to push data to and pull data from .Mac using .Mac Sync, before it is available to be pulled from or pushed to the other machine. In addition, the data does not move directly from iCal to .Mac to iCal: it actually moves from iCal to the truth database on one machine to .Mac to the truth database on the other and to iCal on that other machine. It must complete the transition along that path before it is 'visible' in the second copy of iCal.

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