How to keep iCal events older than 90 days?

We use one of our iCal calendars for business, and we need to refer back to client appointments that occurred several months in the past. However, despite unchecking all the "Delete events" options in Prefs, any appointment older than 90+ days is gone. This is extremely annoying for all concerned. Is there a fix, or do we have to use something like Google calendar and link to it? I'm looking for a simple solution for everyone in the office.

I am having the same issue in a slightly different way.
Have a main calendar server I connect to at work and iCal syncs via CalDAV.
Nothing over about 90 days is getting pulled down even after deleting the calendar.
I am not the only one at work with a Mac that faces this issue.
There are 3 other threads with similar topics:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2658904
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2614205&start=15&tstart=0
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=12495527#12495527
Going to try some of the suggestions there.

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