ICalExternalSync locks up my system with disk read/writes -  any fixes?

When I allow ICalExternalSync to run it completely hangs up my system by hogging a gig of real memory and nearly 3 gigs of virtual memory. It also floods the system with continuous disk read/writes - which stop immediately when I quit the process.
I've learned to shut ICalExternalSync down in "Activity Monitor" as soon as I've synced my calenders.
Anyone else have this problem and a fix?

I thought so too, but after doing that, the total download size for the updates was bigger than the space left. It was 2.8 gigs of downloads, and the root partition was 5.6 gigs full out of 7.56 gigs.
I've never experienced such a huge update before! It's been a few hours and i'm still fixing it. There's literally hundreds of thousands of files that are now giving me "file exists in filesystem" errors so i'm making a script to delete all of those.
To get an idea of how many files there was, i outputted the errors to a file, opened it up with less, then pressed and held page down for almost 2 minutes, didn't reach the bottom, so ended up just pressing end.
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