I've lost iCal.

iPhone 4. I set it up as Google calendar, but I don't like how it's working. I'd like to try using iCal and synching it to Google calendar, which has my husband's data. But I can't find iCal. The icon leads to Google calendar, even after deleting it on the settings page. How do I get iCal back?
Thanks!

Is this correct: you had multiple calendars; they disappeared from the calendar pane and their events from the main pane; you deleted ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.ical.plist; you now have a single calendar (Home) but cannot make more; you can see the events in Home?
Can you add events to Home?
Can you see as many folders in ~/Library/Application Support/iCal/Sources/ as you used to have calendars?
Double-click ~/Library/Application Support/iCal/nodes.plist. Click the black triangle beside the word Root. In the line "List Array ..." how many ordered objects are reported? Does this match your original calendar count?
What have you added/changed/modified recently? Might it have involved any fonts?
AK

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