Google duplicates in iCal

I see many references to this problem, which also seems to be associated with iCloud, but many references to these symptoms go back to 2007 and are not relevant to OS X Lion.  At the Google Calendar help forum I see indications that Apple & Google are aware and working on a remedy.  My own problem is about sync'ing with 2 Google calendars, and while both exhibit the problem to some degree, one creates mores duplicates more often than the other.  And, one of them also has the nasty habit of creating duplicates of duplicates, which is pretty annoying
In iCal preferences, I just deleted both and then re-created them.  They both appear to be behaving now -- I'll let you know otherwise.  If anyone has found a permanent fix, or know why this happens, please enlighten the masses ...
TIA 

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