ICloud iCal duplicates - iTunes sync and local calendars OFF

Hi there,
all my calendar entries in iCloud (and, subsequently on my iPhone/iPad and Mac) show up at least 3 times, some of them 4 times. This applies to all of my 4 iCloud calendars. I used to have 3 or so local calendars before iCloud, but I somehow converted/merged them to iCloud calendars and now these are the only ones i have. iTunes calendar sync is off, and I have never used MobileMe.
For whatever reason they got duplicated, everything else seems to work fine. If I create a new entry in iCal it only shows up once in iCloud and on my devices. If there is an easy way for me to delete the duplicates in the cloud I think I could get everything in order again.
Thank you for any help
Christoph

Yes, your statement is correct and that is exactly what happens. However, if you have a PC running windows, then there is a problem in that icloud will not sync or should I say icloud to your pc.
I set icloud up at the beginning yesterday, it copied 4.4g to the cloud in the sky. Then I went into Outlook and entered a meeting a few days from now. Went back to icloud and told it to do its thing. It ran and when I checked the phone, the meeting was not on the phone. I then entered a different meeting on the iphone and told icloud to do its thing. When it was done, I went to the pc and checked outlook, nothing there from the phone. Then I hooked the cable up and pressed sync on itunes. It went through the sync, backed up etc. I then opened Outlook and still no meeting from the iphone, looked on the iphone and no meeting from the computer.
I turned off icloud and turned sync back on and everything sync'd perfectly with both meetings showing up on the phone and on the comupter.
Thus, icloud is great if you are going to have 3-4 iphones and you use them on different days, it will keep all your apps, etc the same. But for sync, the only way to do it with the PC is with the sync. Unless I am missing something. As I mentioned, if you do turn sync on while icloud is on, then yes, duplicates and a real pain.

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