ICal opening on it's own

I've been using Entourage on my iMac G4 for a couple of years now. I don't use iCal at all. Recently, I've had this problem where iCal opens automatically. When I close it, it will open again automatically. I've check the preferences and it isn't set to open at Startup and I don't see any other settings that might cause this behavior.
I can't recall if I made any changes prior to when it started happening. It's possible that it might have started after the last update to Entourage.
iMac G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8) 768 MB Ram

I am getting more confident that the problem has something to do with a background synchronization process. If I launch either Entourage or iSync, iCal launches also automatically. Perhaps there is a sync preference somewhere that got fouled up?
Can anyone verify that launching Entourage or iSync also triggers iCal to launch on its own?
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