ICal: sync between accounts!

Hey,
I'm having 4 different accounts on my iMac (myself, my husband, one together and one for my company). Now I'd like to sync the iCal events on ALL of these accounts that are on the same computer.
Can someone tell me if it's possible? And if... how?
Steven

Hi: Im busily considering going from a Palm/rzr to the new iphone. However Busy sync doesn't seem to address my task. We have three Palm calendars. His Mine and Social. We want to import the social into Mine and His. But because of confidentail work issues we don't want all of them synced. Thanks D

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