I have two "Birthdays" categories in my Ical

Hi
I suddenly have two "birthday" categories in my Ical which means that every birthday is showed twice which is very annoying. Can anybody help me with this problem?
/Kudsk

Hi guys,
The worst came to me very soon after my previous post: I got "three" copies of each birthday subscribed from Address Book on my iCal. I noticed one thing though. There were three duplicates of each contact in my Address Book.
My workaround was going through my Address Book and deleted the duplicates one by one. To make the job more tedious, the cursor jumped funnily while I was trying to highlight each duplicate. It was a great pain for me as I had to delete 764 duplicated contacts to get my 382 contacts back to their original states. I then quit Address Book and iCal, and re-opened iCal but the duplicated birthdays still persisted. They went away only when I unchecked birthday subscription from Address Book in iCal preference and quit iCal then re-opened iCal and subscribed birthday from Address Book again.
I have no idea why it happened this way. I guess it must have been a bug or two in syncing among my MacBook and Backup and iDisk.
It was a very painful process but it solved my problem. I hope someone would come up with a better solution if there is one.
Good luck,
Chacrit

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