ICal crawling SO SLOOOOOOWWW! Please Help!

It's actually on my sister-in-laws 1.6ghz G5 Powermac, but I have run out of ideas to try and help her..
Granted, she has about 17 very full calenders, but there is definitely something wrong.... iCal takes about 8 seconds to launch, moving from field to field or date to date brings up the spinning ball every time. It's basically un-usable.. No problems with any of her other apps or with my brother's iCal under his user account.
On her side, I've run Disk Warrior, Disk Repair, and permissions, no problems found.. I've trashed all the iCal preferences. I've turned off auto-update on all calenders. Nothing helps.. Any ideas?
iCal 2.04, OSX.4.8, 1.6 ghz G5 1.5 gb ram.

Are the calendars hers? If so, are they published somewhere? Are they someone else's that she has suscribed to? Are they synchronised anywhere? Are they very large (as in many events, some of doubtful historical interest)? Are there many repeating events?
These are things that will slow down iCal. If none of them apply it would be worth turning off all calendars excep one, then quit and restart. If iCal then behaves normally, repeat with the next until you find one that causes the slow-down - bad data in a calendar can also affect performance. Alternatively, export all the calendars in turn, then delete them all and re-import them one at a time.
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