ICal doesn't let you make events repeat _on all but the_ nth weekday of a m

I am managing a radio station automation setup using iCal, iTunes, GarageBand, and Automator/AppleScript (the station is WRFR-LP FM in Rockland, ME). The workflow is going well with one exception: we have a show that plays on the last friday of every month, and the other fridays a different show plays. The problem here is we can't set up show #2 (which plays every other friday) as a recurring event in iCal. I can't set it up as separate monthly recurring events on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd fridays either because some months have 4 fridays and some have 5.
What would be useful is the option to "Repeat monthly (every n months), on every friday EXCEPT the [first, second, third, fourth, last]". The "Except" could be added as a radio button next to "On the" (the two would naturally be exclusive of each other). Perhaps "On all but the" is better wording than "Except".
If this were included in iCal, my situation above could be remedied by adding two events: one for the first show, repeating "monthly every 1 month, on the last friday"; and another for show #2, repeating "monthly every 1 month, ON ALL BUT THE last friday".
what i have: http://www.csh.rit.edu/~riffraff/icalrepeat.png
a photoshopped mockup of what i would love: http://www.csh.rit.edu/~riffraff/icalrepeatfix.png
is this a logical annoyance to anyone but me?

I did update from an older Mac. All of my calendars are showing up just fine, I'm just having trouble editing events. I can add events just fine from my iPhone or Mac, just can't edit/delete from either. When I edit/delete the event directly from Google Calendar the changes are reflected on the Calendar app just fine.
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