ICal freezing, glitches, events of entire week disappearing...

All the events of next week, February 6-12, disappeared. I cannot see them in week view. When I try to schedule new ones, they disappear. When I look on the week after, Feb. 13-19, the event appears there on week view (but none of the original events appear there). On day view, the events appear, but when I switch from day view to week view on Feb. 6-12, the events appear large across the whole week- very strange. This happened yesterday after I changed one of my regular events slightly to go from about 11:15 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. That particular event is scheduled to repeat everyday. When I click on that event, iCal becomes slow until I click on another event. When I try to move that event or any event connected to it, iCal becomes slow and malfunctional and won't quit. I end up having to force quit. I assume that it is connected to the scheduling of this event regularly. Also, my iCal schedule is very detailed with many events, so that's possibly related. Any ideas of how to fix this? I've tried deleting the event, restarting the computer, and checking for software updates (none were available for my computer MAC OS X 10.6.6).

Today, some things are working a little better, just barely. The main issue is still there though. I'll be doing my best to explain, and I don't know much terminology, so bear with me. Thanks for replying so promptly to my question
I took your advice on the regular events that would allow me to edit them, limiting it to end in a week. But the particular event, which repeats everyday, won't let me adjust it. When I right click on it, the options come up, but the "get info" option and others are grey so that I cannot click on it or access it to change it. And when I click on it, it remains "highlighted" and basically frozen so that I have to scroll to a different day or force quit or something. It lets me move the time/day of the event by dragging it. Even then, strange things happen, such as when I double click on it, the option to click "edit" or "done" comes up for a different event. All events only appear one calendar at a time, and only when viewing individual days.

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