ICloud made a mess of Calendar

After I decided to try iCloud for Contacts and Calendar, I now regret the horrible mess it created. I need help putting Calendar back to it’s previous state.
Contacts seemed to sync as expected after enabling iCloud, but Calendar would not sync entries to the Mac. This wasn’t an immediate worry as every couple of months this year I have had the problem of the iPad not syncing new entries to the Mac. I went through Apple suggested remedies of removing sync history, and using Terminal to remove the system library Calendar caches and library caches. Unfortunately, that has not seemed to have worked this time, so no new iPad entries sync to the Mac and thus I have to also enter those same entries on the Mac.
I turned off iCloud on both the iPad and Mac, but new problems exist. When iCloud is turned off for Mail on the Mac, it wipes all the entries off the Mac Calendar, necessitating restoring the calendar from an archive.
1) Any new entries added to the iPad can be edited/deleted but all previous entries and new entries synced from the Mac only give a “details” option nor can any old entries on the iPad be deleted.
2) In iTunes all the calendars show a name such as “personal(my user [email protected])” Before using iCloud, it only listed the calendar “personal” under On My Mac.
3) On the Mac calendar all the calendar categories are showing under an iCloud header and there is the gray triangle showing it wasn’t able to connect. The “On My Mac” listings now only show Home, Work, and Reminders rather than the full list of 15 calendars it did list before.
How can I get calendar to forget it had ever synced with iCloud?
MIght this change the situation? - There is a clone of my primary OS drive on drive 2 which I made a month ago in preparation of Maverick (so I can still have a 10.8.x system available to me after upgrading to 10.9 - also have a Snow Leopard system on a fifth drive). There is a calendar on that drive that has the calendar archive one month before I made the iCloud mistake. Could I replace the current Calendar on the Mac with that archive and perhaps straighten out this mess? I could then replace the iPad calendar with that new calendar now on the Mac?
I am hoping that when I make an empty 2014 Calendar, that I might be able to resolve the syncing problems. I am concerned when I do get a new iPad this fall and an iPhone in January some of these problems might still exist.

Try updating iTunes to the latest version.
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