Importing an iCal agenda in Entourage

When I just got my new iPhone, I wanted to get my Entourage appointments on it. Since putting things directly from Entourage to an iPhone is impossible, I wanted to copy everything to iCal. When I imported my Entourage agenda in iCal, nothing happened. I tried the same thing once more (Import... Import from Entourage...) and then it took a very long time before my agenda was finally in iCal. However, going back to Entourage, I saw that my - until then - existing agenda had disappeared! All appointments were gone. I don't know why this happened, the first time I did this, it didn't happen (well nothing happened). A stupid detail is that the iCal appointments are also two hours earlier then they used to be in Entourage (although the time zones in both programs were the same).
Well, my question is (although some people told me it's impossible): is it possible to move my appointments back from iCal to Entourage?
When I try the Export-function in iCal, an ics-file is created. When I import that in Entourage, I only see one of the notitions I had (and still have) in Entourage, and I still don't see the agenda. I don't know how I could get it back in Entourage, but maybe someone has an idea? I thank you in advance.
To make sure what we're talking about: I'm using Entourage 2004 (11.2.5) and iCal 4.0.4.

Why is it that so many posts go unanswered?
I can only answer that from my own perspective. Typically I will glance through this forum once a day, but sometimes a week or even two passes and I don't have time to look at it. I almost never look past the first page in the list of posts. If I see a question with no replies, and a topic to which I might know the answer, I look at the post and answer it if I can, or maybe request further information. If I see a question that involves areas (there are so many) on which I am ignorant (syncing, publishing, subscribing, mobileme to name but a few) I ignore it.
So a question, to be answered, must be seen by someone who knows the answer (or is prepared to try to find one) and has the time to respond. It is a matter of chance. No-one is paid or rewarded for answering. If a question is important to you, and is not getting help, keep bumping it so it stays on the first page, though then it will be seen as having a lot of replies, and people that know the answer might not look, so maybe reposting would be better.
I often find that I reply to a post and never hear anything back, and so don't know whether my post solved the problem or not, and after a few of those I tend to stay away from the discussions for a while.
Was I too confusing in the way I asked my question?
The question was perfectly clear.
AK

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