Google cal and iCal, weird alert settings!?

Hi,
I'm using a Google calendar in/through iCal (on Mac OSX Lion - the problem existed under Snow Leopard as well though) and everything works fine except that the Google calendar seems to automatically create two weird and quite annoying alerts for the events as well!? I always have to manually set these alerts to 'none' in order to get rid of them.
This does not happen with normal iCal calendars nor with Exchange calendars.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!! Thank you very much,
Jerome

THANK YOU  THANK YOU  THANK YOU!!!
Didn't realize "default" alerts on the Google Calendar side would transfer to iCal as multiple alerts AND an email alert.
Is there a way (maybe from the terminal) to go through one's iCal and programmatically remove all Email alerts from existing events/appointments?  I know I might be pushing my luck here...

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