Ical events re-sort themselves in month view.

We have 50 clients, all running ical on snowleopard, and all connecting to a server running OSX server 10.6.4.
On the clients, especially ones with busy calendars, when you edit an event on any day, other events will shift and re-sort themselves. All day events at the top will switch places, one above the other.
This is a problem for busy users. They will end up clicking on the wrong event since the sort just happened as they move their mouse pointer and went to click.
Sometimes it's on a completely different day that the re-sort takes place. i.e. I click on an event on monday the 20th, make a note or change, and when I close the event window, I'll see two or three events on other days flip-flop.
This is happening on multiple clients, various macs, so it's not related to one bad install. Users are starting to complain.
Has anyone else seen this?

Yes--this is driving me crazy!
Anyone have any advice?
Message was edited by: Jason P.

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