ICal with Entourage Syncing

Hi, Can't sync iCal and Entourage calenders. Had this working but upgraded (hah!) to Outlook for Mac and now going back to Entourage won't sync.
iCal external sync is crashing daily according to crash log.
Have tried deleting syncs and starting again. No joy. Entourage shows in iCal as calender but no data.
All software up to date.
Simon

Hello, Julian, original macrat and LizKual ~
I have the same problem as macrat and Liz. Syncing (I'm not talking about iSync; I'm talking about Sync Services) between Entourage 2008 and iCal was working just fine until March 16.
Initially, the Entourage calendar, with all its entries, disappeared from iCal. But with some help from the folks in the Microsoft support forums, I was able to get the Entourage calendar to show up again on the list in iCal's left-hand column but, unfortunately, still without any events.
I've been plugging away in the Microsoft forums ever since. Can you believe this?! I haven't been able to use the calendar on my iPhone since March 16!
See:
http://www.officeformac.com/ms/ProductForums/Entourage/17016/0
http://www.office.mvps.org/troubleshoot/syncservices.html- ss2
http://www.office.mvps.org/syncservices/ical.html#calsync5
http://www.office.mvps.org/faq_topic/duplicates.html
I have done every relevant thing suggested on these four pages. I still don't have any Entourage events showing up in iCal (although Entourage 2 is on the list of iCal calendars) and now I have a massive number of duplicates, triplicates, quadruplicates, etc., appearing in my Entourage calendar. The only thing on the above-mentioned pages that I haven't yet tried is Syncrospector. (I bought Xcode and then discovered it was probably included as part of Snow Leopard. Oh well, I'm soldiering on, even though I'm in way over my head.)
Do you know whether someone has already assembled the code needed to get Syncrospector to eliminate the masses of duplicate calendar entries that Entourage 2008 stands ready to send to Sync Services? Such info — or, even better, a link — would be much appreciated. :-) I've been preparing for this undertaking, but at this rate it could be another two months before I succeed.
Of course, even after I get rid of the duplicates, I'll still need to find a way to get Sync Services to communicate between Entourage and iCal — which is its job, after all. Suggestions on that point would also be welcome. Maybe Sync Services is choking on the duplicates and that's why it's not sending anything to iCal. If so, then maybe Syncrospector will take care of both problems. I can only hope.
Thanks very much.

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