ICal has a rediculous amount of duplicates and is very sluggish

HELP! I am not very good at this whole sync thing, but I seem to have accumulated hundreds of duplicate entries for holidays, birthdays and some individual events.
When I try to delete large chunks of selected events, iCal takes a rediculous amount of time or does not respond and I have to force quit.
What the heck is wrong. How do I fix it without losing all my data?
Also having trouble syncing iCal with Entourage and iPhone!
PLEASE HELP

If you haven't kept records of who had what phone, or required the user to wipe the phone properly before returning it (maybe time to update your company policies), you'll have to contact Apple Support directly and provide proof of ownership for these devices.
Although there is no published process for getting devices unlocked, there have been reports that Apple can unlock corporate owned devices in situations such as yours, when device ownership is able to be proved.
In future, when someone returns a phone, make sure they go to Settings > General > Reset > Erase all content and settings and enter their password for the process to complete. Then you'll have no problems.

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