How to "redo" iCal accounts

Seems like after upgrading to 10.5.3, I've started experiencing many different issues, several of which I have been following on these posts. I'm wondering if anyone knows a simple way to delete all iCal accounts to start from scratch (without having to reinstall OSX or anything like that). I'm at the point with my iCal Server situation that I'd like to just nuke the entire directory of calendars and have all my users start over again and create new calendars.
It's really quite frustrating, but hey, sometimes you have to clear the board and get a fresh start right?
Appreciate any help!

Kia ora Fireball08,
I will describe what we had, and then what we did.
We needed a calander at work, we are dentists and needed a simple computerised appointment book. I bought Leopard server for that and we fired it up and away we went.
I installed server as the basic dumby setup, I didn't turn on any additional services other than ical, filesharing and ichat. It seemed to go OK running on a G4 dually tower and serving to one G4 macmini (the receptionist) and another G4 tower, and I use a printed daysheet, but had my calendar client was on my macbook.
We had 2 main calendars (the two dentists) and the receptionist, who was a delegat of both. Reception made all the appointments and had R/W access to the two calendars.
I did not turn on DNS (no one said at that stage I had too!) and we did not use kerebos.
To get the calendars working I had to put in the ip address of the server etc as we kept getting the cant find principals error when configuring the icals. The only problem was slow updating and a peculiar situation where the receptionists calendar had all the appts OK but my macbook had lots of gaps. So somehow her macmini was the only complete calendar.
Any way, this was all to get it ready for replacing the reception macmini with two intelmini's and installing server on a 2.66 ghz imac.
I was running out of time and had our local mac-dealer I.T. man install Leopard server but he could not get the ical part going, he configured DNS and all the other services but could not get the group webcalendar going even after installing 10.5.3. He got busy doing things that worked (far more satisfying I'm sure) so, I got the imac back and then with the OSX server book (Mac os x server essentials second edition) I tried to get it going and I did (I think! -- you can never be too sure!!).
In our situation it was due to DNS and iCal to begin with. When you do the dumby setup and name you server it gets called whateveryouwant.com. We gave ours a .com suffix. The computer was called, lets say fishbreath (the name of the drive/machine). The fully qualified domain name would be servername.com, in this case whateveryouwant.com.
This is where it seemed to go all weird, the nameserver host name was servername.suffix but according to the book, it should be computername.servername.suffix, so in our case it would be fishbreath.whateveryouwant.com. We set it so.
In serveradmin the iCal service/settings however had the ical server name as whateveryouwant.com only. I gave it the full name, fishbreath.whateveryouwant.com, I also changed the authentication to Any Method and restarted ical and away it went. In workgroup manager I also made sure each user was pointed to the iCal server in user/advanced, enable calendaring selecting the correctly named ical server, now fishbreath.whateveryouwant.com (previously just whateveryouwant.com)
By now our setup was 3 dentists (the main calendars) with 2 receptionists and a back office emac as delegates of the other three (still served off the G4 dualy) and about 6000 events, increasing by about 70 per day. Two of the dentists clients had complete calendars, and one receptionists had all three as did the back office, but my calendar on my macbook had holes in it and the other receptionist was incomplete.
We then went live with the imac installation. Having re-populated the new server with all the accounts, by hand there are only 9 user accounts, and re-populated the calendars with a ical backup from the complete receptionists account. It seemed to be OK but one receptionist computer would not refresh and we were getting the cog of pathetic failure. I could get things going by restarting iCal but it would grind to a halt 2 hours later, to the minute.
The error logs for DNS and iCal showed authentication errors. The authentication was set to any, but some clients were trying to use Kerebos, and the error was due to a certificate error or something.
I first exported the client calendars on the two complete dentists local machines and my one on the back office machine.
And following advice from the boards I opened directory(the application, not the utility) on each client selected preferences and in preferences selected password (some were set on Kerebos). Then deleted the ical accounts, on the user clients (not the server), in ical preferences and re-created them. And made sure network prefs had the ip of our server dns and the search domain name had the domain name of our server.
I then reimported the exported calendars back into the accounts and its been humming along since then. The ical log still has lots of errors but it works well, updates all clients and delegates when changes are made instantly, so we are happy. Our wiki and group web calendar is going now as well.
So to reiterate for us it was DNS, then iCal, then Utility Ap, then delete ical account on client and re-create it. I don't think I've forgotten anything, but I will check the settings tomorrow at work, Late Sunday night here, you can't expect too much!!
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