ICal creating phantom 'Untitled' Calendars

Hello,
Every time I start iCal after it has been up for a second or two, it creates a bunch of "Untitled" calendars. It creates them in pairs. If I delete them, after a few seconds 2 more appear. Ical seems to think they are subscription calendars, they have a refresh arrow next to them. If I try to add an event to one it warns me that they are "read-only" calendars.
I've tried deleting preferences and ical directories in Library/ApplicationSupport
but I must have missed something key because my "Home" calendar is still there (with events) after deleting preferences files.
Any help getting rid of these phantom calendars would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Bruce

I, too, am the vistim of phantom calendars, currently 96. And they create "conflicts" that want to be resolved with my .Mac account. What is better: phantom blue on iCal or phantom pink on .Mac?
Resetting iSync has had NO impact.
All of this follows my iCal completely disappearing upon launch the other day. I was able to restore not from .Mac but from my Palm.
Meanwhile, the phantoms seem to propagate every time I launch CIal.Am about ready to cross to the "dark side" and use Entourage.
HEEEEELLLLLPPP!
PowerBook G4   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

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