ICal consolidated all of my calendars into one! No undo option!

I have four calendars in my iCal, I did this so I could publish just one of these to my .Mac account. Things seemed to be going okay, I had three calendars turned-off from view by unchecking them, as I started to look at the calendar I got the spinning rainbow beachball of death and tried clicking on the iCal window, nothing, so I double-clicked, still nothing (iCal is still open with events from the checkmarked calendar showing, beachball still spinning).
Beachball stops spinning and now every single one of my events have been placed into the calendar I was viewing! The other calendars are empty, it consolidated all of the events into one calendar. There is no undo option. I didn't even know iCal could move events from one calendar to another enmass like that. So now I'm stuck, my last iCal backup was a week ago and many events have changed, I sync with both my Palm Treo and .Mac so I don't want to mess those calendars up. And even if I owned an iPhone this would be a major problem.
At the very least, is there a way I can change all iCal events en-mass again to a specific calendar? Then at least I can move single events to the proper places to recover from this mess. Why doesn't Apple provide an option in iSync to completely overwrite my desktop with handheld data? You can overwrite the handheld with the desktop data but not the other way around. I have my handheld PDA available much more often than my desktop so that calendar and Address book is much more up to date all the time. I hate iCal it's one of Apple's most inelegant apps with the poorest user interface.
Message was edited by: Baron Sekiya

Okay, I believe I figured-out how to change events to different calendars en masse. But iCal seems to be choking on the changes.
1. Click on Results List button on the bottom (third from the right).
2. Select events to change (there is no Select All option in Edit, though you can click on the 1st event, then SHIFT-click on the last event if you want to select a block, or COMMAND-click to add/remove individual events from the selection)
3. Right-click (or Control-click) on the selected events to bring-up the contextual menu.
4. Go to calendars and select the calendar to attach the events to.
Now this should work, but iCal completely chokes on doing a large group of events. Small bunches do work but iCal is so inefficient it can't make the changes I need.
Anyone else got a good solution? Other than: Buy a MacBook Pro?
For the time being I'm switching back to Now Up To Date, the best calendar for the Mac. I gave iCal a shot but NUTD is vastly superior. Maybe when Mac OS 10.5 and Time Machine comes out I'll give iCal another try.

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