Ical lost calendars with a twist

I've followed some of the threads about iCal missing calendars and have tried the common solution of deleting the iCal.plist in preferences and also moving the contents of the iCal applications folder in library. Not sure if there is a specific order to this though.
My situation arose just after I interrupted a decrypt process for filevault (I was running out of time before getting on a plane). Anyway, after this, mail launched and then terminated many times and eventually started in safe mode so I could recover. The XP.hdd file for parallels looks like it was corrupted and won't start (so I'm going to have to reinstall all windows stuff when I get home), AND iCal lost all its calendars (could be due to a corrupt .ics file.
None of the currently published solutions have led to me recovering my calendars. I have also my calendar on my cell phone which I sync using iSync. There looks like there is activity going on (e.g records being updated etc.) but no appointments appear back in the calendar. This is getting a tad frustrating and as yet no news from apple.
Any suggestions before I go down the route of manually recreating my electronic diary?

Fixed with a device reset. Can't remember which post suggested this, but thanks for whoever suggested it.

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E.H. 12.9.2008
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property myObsoletes : 0
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property myDeletes : {}
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Did you ever find a soloution to this, as we have the same problem?
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