How to restore ical with time machine

I have (some how) lost all of my appointments in my "Work Calendar" within iCal except for one entry (which is strangs).
I have been trying to restore from Time Machine, but, the user interface for iCal through Time Machine is "not easy" to figure out or to use.
I am unable to open the iCal folder as I can do with other ones to restore the data.
How can I do this - I have never been able to do this restore in iCal & Contacts.
Please can any one help me?

Frank Lowney1 wrote:
Another factor that may be relevant is that I seen iCal appear and disappear from the MobileMe list of things to synch. It's out of view 99% of the time.
If you are talking about something you see in System Preferences>MobileMe then it's not relevant - iCal does not in fact sync, it reads the calendars directly from the server (though there is by default a cached local copy) and as I said the settings in that prefs pane are nothing to do with iCal any more.
iCal is controlled in System Preferences>Mail, Contacts& Calendars and you should check that your MobileMe login details are correctly entered there - please see http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4758
As to the process I detailed, in the first set of numbered instructions, please make sure that when you have exported your MobileMe calendars you import them back into a calendar listed under 'On My Mac' - these cannot be deleted by MobileMe and from your description it sounds as if you may not have done this. Given your problems, I would suggest choosing new name sfor the calendars, at least temporarily.
Then when you reconnect to the internet it should not be possible for MobileMe to delete the calendars and you can proceed with the next steps.

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