ICal sync on different Apple devices

After converting all my calendar entries since 1999 from my heavely used Palm to iCal, I have a rather full iCal system. Objective is to use my iCal calender from different Apple devices, including an iPhone 3GS, iPad, 2x Apple notebooks (Pro and Air), iMac, Mac Pro (all Mac's running under Lion 10.7.1).
Although initially OK, I experience continuous sync problems with iCal. Funny enough the different Mac systems react differently. One (the MacNotebook Pro) seems to accept most changes from other systems, the others signal "server access problems" with iCal, although they all work on the same network and only one iCal instance is active on one specific Mac. A simular problem happens on the iPhone, however without warning messages.
Can anyone shed any light on this problem area?

Welcome to the Apple community.
It's not clear why you need to have different Icloud accounts on each device, however this may not be relevant.
Music, TV shows, movies, books and apps are purchased through the iTunes store, your iTunes account is not the same as your iCloud account. So it may well be that you can maintain different Icloud accounts on your devices and still use the same iTunes account on all of them.
It may be the case, that if you tell us a little bit more about what you are trying to achieve, we may be able to help you further.

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