ICal hangs when exporting a calendar

When attempting to export a calendar (as a backup), it causes iCal to hang, and I have to Force Quit. The calendar is ~9.5 Megs in size. I have run Disk Utility.
I am using iCal version 5.0.3.
The last backup that was successful was on 9/21/2012 (I back up every week). Because I have added events and reminders since then, I don't want to restore that file but would like to see if there is a way ro "fix" the hangup so that I can get a good calendar export.
Anybody have any suggestions?
Thanks.

through additional experimentation, here is what i learned.
when i created the calendar, i told iphoto i wanted to display american holidays and a calendar from ical.
If i unselect the show holidays options, my dates import correctly. with holiday selected i get some dates from ical, but only to the extent they don't over lap with holidays.
once i noticed this pattern, i went back and forth and sure enough if you have an event from ical on say chirtmas day, it won't be imported into your calendar.
I didn't seem to matter which order the events were added to the calendar ... holidays first or ical calendar dates first.
Finally, i created an ical calendar with the holidays i wanted displayed, then in iphoto told it not to include holidays, but to display both ical calendars. That had the same issue. on date where you have events on both calendars, only one set of dates will appear in iphoto.
so to conclude building a calendar in iphoto you can not include dates from mulitple ical calendars without conflict.
i stopped short of merging calendars in ical, but i guess that's next.
Not to be too critical here, but that sounds like bug someone at apple might be able to fix.
Perhaps some of the developers you have building weekly updates to itunes and put them to work cleaning up this kind of mess.
Hope this helps others with the same problem.
regards.

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