ICal - MobileMe - Duplicates, Triplicates, etc. - gone crazy?

Have been using MobileMe for over a year now, "almost" no problem, but since 2-3 weeks out of control: I use it to sync calendar and address book across MacBook Pro, iPad and iPhone 4 (sync only over MobileMe, not over iTunes). Since 2-3 weeks the calendar entries multiply dozen of times with no reason. E.g. enter one meeting in the iPhone, then find it dozen of times in MacBook and iPad. Also the other ways round.
Have reset all sync and deleted all calendars, no impact. Bug in MobileMe or am I missing a hidden setting somewhere? Please help.

Greetings,
How many computers are you syncing?
If you are running the latest version of the Mac OS on all the computers and the latest version of the iOS on your iPhone you might want to consider using the new MobileMe calendar. The issue you describe sounds like a sync database issue. The new MobileMe calendar does not use syncing anymore so this might be a cleaner solution to the issue.
Review this article for more information on the new calendar: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4379

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