Import from Yahoo!/sbcglobal calendar into iCal - is it possible?

I run a PC at the office as well as a PC laptop of my own. However - my G4 is my main hub computer at home and from whence all roads lead to and from.
I am on sbcglobal (Yahoo!) for e-mail and one of the niftier things I can do is "sync" (via Intellisync software available for free from Yahoo!) my ENTIRE contacts and calendar from my office PC Outlook and export it into Yahoo!. I have determined that I can export a vCard file out of the Yahoo! contacts database and then import that into my Address Book (OK - some minor tweaks/editing needed on my part after the import) but EVERYTHING is there - very cool indeed.
Is there any way to do something similar with iCal? (presently I cannot seemingly export the Yahoo! calendar data either an iCal or vCal file). Will exporting it to a .csv (did I get that right) be of any help or just really screw things up?
advice, guidance, a helathy dose of reality, please
thanks
Theo
Studio City, CA

looks like this is not yet an option via yahoo/sbc

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