ICal doesn't subscribe to timed events and doesn't refresh

In our office we each have a calendar which each person publishes on .Mac, and which others in the office subscribe to. We're experiencing the following problems:
-- "Refresh all" on some machines doesn't refresh calendars; each must be refreshed individually;
-- On some machines, all-day events appear, but timed events do not
-- In some cases calendars won't refresh properly; they display old information and don't update, even when manually refreshed. The calendar must be deleted and re-subscribed to on the subscribing machine. Sometimes even this doesn't work and has to be done repeatedly before the calendar is up to date.
We have a mix of iBooks, iMacs (from G4 to Intel), MacBook, PowerBook, and G5; running OS X 10.3 through 10.4. Could the mix of OS versions be the problem? Or should we use another server than .Mac to publish/subscribe to?

lilkirk87,
It probably means that you do not have "Calendars" selected in iPhone>Settings>iCloud.

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