Help! iCal has a mind of its own since Lion

Since Lion, iCal has been acking super wonky. If you create an event, say it's named "Dinner", it reverts back to the default 'New Event' in 5 seconds. Trying to add any advanced information is not working either. The repeat dropdown sticks to 'None' but it seems like every time you click 'Every Day', it is actually copying the event on the current day. So I have two events, both at 10AM, called 'New Event'.
Next guess would be to delete the event. Selecting it and hitting delete makes it go away for about 4 seconds. Then it pops back up. Two 'New Events' that I don't want there.
This is really bizarre and I've tried all the resolutions provided by other folks:
Delete all iCal-related Preference files.
Delete ALL data in ~/Library/Calendars
Run 'Syncrhospector' and unregister iCal (Every time iCal opens, it re-registers itself, so that was pointless!)
Reboot
I'm trying to set up recurring events that trigger apple scripts, as this machine is going to be a kiosk-type installation in a retail store. 1 more day and it has to be installed, so I need to figure out a fix for this! Apple, please take note to the folks with these issues!
Running 10.7.1.

It was doing this even over the summer when school was not in session. I am downloading 10.7.5 now, and I hope that might fix the bug.

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