ICal generated clones spontaneously

During the past two days my Macbook Pro sporadically displayed an iCal error message that a server error occurred. Sometimes two or three error messages serially.
This Monday morning I find my desktop iMac, on the same home local network, has duplicate entries for every iCal event now and henceforth, plus dating back to September of last year. Entries prior to September, 2011 are in triplicate now. The Macbook Pro suffers exactly the same added entries now.
My iPhone has duplicate calendar entries now, and maybe some triplicated, too. I decided to invest my time in posting this issue rather than skimming through month after month of iCal entries on each of the three Apple products to detail the scope of the new problem precisely.
I would like advice on restoring single entries throughout.
Lengthy discourse about what iCal does of its own volition may illustrate for the wider audience. I'm merely seeking resumption of the ordinary way of things, which has been my experience for a year with the two Macs and for three months plus with the iPhone.
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BTW, Support Discussion denies me an option to list all three products affected, so I choose to list the senior Mac.

Further scrutiny informs me that I did not change time zone to match the home networked iMac when I and my Macbook Pro returned from a West Coast trip.
After posting initially, the Discussions sidebar updated with useful suggested links to similar past discussions. I'm working through two of them, while still annoyed by the distraction. The most helpful thus far is the MobileMe: Resolving Duplicate Calendars …
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3505?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

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Hello,
I am completely disappointed because my articles from Nokia Developer Wiki was moved to TechNet Wiki and I wasn´t notified....and of course it do mess, because I saved my articles to publish here and I just published some of them...and now I have cloned
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Got it. That's very clearly a problem you're going to have to address at the source - the export stage - rather than from iCal after import.
Have you spoken with the campus technology staff familiar with SCT Banner or SCT Campus Pipeline about the issue? Surely, they must be familiar with 'standards-based' calender export.
The problem here is that there are SO many component parts: the SCT program, the exported files, iCal, iSync and Sync Services. It could be that Apple has failed to properly account for and handle something produced by the SCT programs, but it seems far more likely that the export files are non-standard. The exported records are essentially considered 'mal-formed' by Sync Services, and there is no way that you can diagnose and correct the issue on a hit-or-miss basis.
The whole push-pull or put-get technology behind Sync Services is complex and at times mysterious, and made infinitely more complex when you cross platforms, despite the existence of widely touted 'standards' for data interchange.
I would start by hunting down the local Banner or Campus Pipeline expert, and asking that individual why the data is not 'synchronizable' in its current form.

Curious ICal Sync Issue

New to the board and Thanks for the expertise here! I have 3 macs and regularly sync - ONE problem. My PB G4 with OS 10.4.5 everything else syncs fine with my office computer EXCEPT ICal?! I get this message:
An inconsistency detected on .Mac for your Calendars data prevented your sync from completing! You should consider resetting .Mac from a computer with good data.
I've tried the suggestion several times - no luck. Any ideas?
Thanks!
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.5) IMac & PB G4

I had the same issue. Resetting the sync history didn't fix it. I switched to syncing only a single, brand new calendar that wasn't published to an external server. This worked. . I then exported my main calendar and imported it to this new calendar. Everything still worked.
I then added in all my other calendars. All of these are subscribed calendars (read only), and I had about 7 of them plus the iCal generated Birthdays calendar. This worked too.
Finally, I switched iTunes to sync "All Calendars" and published the new main calendar I created in the first step to my home server. At this point things broke again...items created on the iPhone wouldn't sync. I removed "All Calendars" and manually selected every calendar in the list (so it's the same data now, but if I add a new calendar it won't automatically sync). This got things working again.
I'm not sure if that would have done it the first time, but it has fixed things now.
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