ICal shows birthdays in all my calendars

I laboriously created a birthday field in my address book and a birthday subscription calendar. I have several calendars, personal, business, etc. All the birthday reminders appeared on ALL my calendars. How do I restrict this to just my personal calendar?
Thank you.
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Greetings Miriam,
Questions:
If you turn the Birthday calendar subscription off in iCal > Preferences > General, do all the birthdays disappear or just the ones in the Birthday calendar?
Did this behavior happen when you first started using the Birthday field in Address Book or did it happen later on during use (what you describe is not a normal occurrence for iCal so this suggests something caused it)?
Do you maintain regular backups such as with Time Machine and do you have a backup of your information from before the issue occurred ?
Do you use a server based calendar like iCloud / Google / Yahoo / MobileMe?
General troubleshooting while you answer those questions:
1. First make an iCal backup:  Click on each calendar on the left hand side of iCal one at a time highlighting it's name and then going to File Export > Export and saving the resulting calendar file to a logical location for safekeeping.
2. Go to iCal > Quit iCal
3. Remove the following to the trash and restart your computer:
Home > Library > Caches > com.apple.ical
Home > Library > Calendars > Calendar Cache, Cache, Cache 1, 2, 3, etc. (Do not remove Sync Cache or Theme Cache if present)
--- NOTE: To get to "Home > Library" in Lion: Click anywhere on the desktop and then click on the "Go" menu at the top of the computer screen while holding down the "option" key on the keyboard.  You will see "Library" in the menu.
4. Launch iCal and test.
If the issue persists:
1. Go to iCal > Quit iCal
2. Remove the following to the trash and restart your computer:
Home > Library > Caches > com.apple.ical
Home > Library > Calendars > Calendar Cache, Cache, Cache 1, 2, 3, etc. (Do not remove Sync Cache or Theme Cache if present)
Home > Library > Preferences > com.apple.ical (There may be more than one of these. Remove them all.)
--- NOTE: Removing these files may remove any shared (CalDAV) calendars you may have access to. You will have to re-add those calendars to iCal > Preferences > Accounts.
3. Launch iCal and test.
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