ICal and Entourage - Is it Possible?

Hey all,
So I have recently (as in today) been looking at Entourage as an alternative to Apple's Mail application. I was SOAR when I found out that the 'Sync' feature was NOT going to work properly, and here is why.
From what I understand, ICal uses different CALENDARS to differentiate between items, calendar like 'Personal,' 'Business' and 'Wife Time,' while ENTOURAGE uses ONE calendar (like Outlook) and simply categorizes it. THUS, when I SYNC them, I get all my little calendars in ICal and in MobileMe, including a calendar for ENTOURAGE.
NOW! Here is my question! IS IT POSSIBLE? - Can we EXPORT or SUBSCRIBE my 'Entourage' calendar in ICal to my OTHER calendars in ICal? If so, I WOULD have doubles of EVERYTHING, but could potentially solve the problem. I DOUBT this is likely.
Anyways, just a thought... WHEN WILL THESE DEVELOPERS GET THINGS RIGHT?! haha

I just bought e2sync (It doesn't work on Leopard, however).
The categories of the Entourage calendar are converted to calendars in iCal.
Still getting it to work at the moment...
There's a free 10 day trial.
http://e2sync.com/dl/tiger/e2SyncTiger2.8.dmg

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