Help, Recurring Event WON'T Edit or Delete

I've read the threads about the slow iCal, or SBOD, or not responding. I've tried deleting the plists, backing up then restoring the calenders. I've made all my recurring events end at a date instead of never.
I think I have the problem narrowed down to one event. If I have the calender that this event is in deselected, iCal runs like a champ, no SBOD, no slow downs, just like the good old days. If I have that calender selected, even if it's the only one, SBOD with every input, takes to long to change month or anything. If I try to edit, or delete this event SBOD for as long as you can wait. If it happens to go away, nothing has happened. "The end on date" still has no were to input the date or if you tried to delete it it's still there.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have installed all updates so I am up to date (kinda redundant)
Thanks again.

Ferd, You are a life saver. In response to you suggestions.
1) Folder did not exist on my HD. Must have been deleted at some past update.
2) tried and tried again to no avail. Even deleted the iCal folder in HD/Users/Name/Library/Caches and it still didn't help.
3)And the angels rejoiced. Had to go back to April 2001 and it took about 3 Min. of the SBOD before it happened but Waa-Lah. The evil event is dead. No spinning ball, no freeze ups, and even with all my calendars selected (10 of them) I can switch between months, events, days, views, whatever just like I used to.
For anyone reading this that is having a slowdown issue with iCal, It was 1 repeated event out of many that caused the problem. I knew which one it was because if I selected it in Month View I got the SBOD for about 20 sec. every time. If I selected another event, that event highlighted immediately.
Good Luck All and
Thanks Again.

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