Importing Entourage calendar categories to iCal

I have my Entourage calendar events color-coded using categories (ie yellow-bdays/anniv, blue-travel, green-meetings, etc.) and need to switch over to iCal so I can use ePocrates on my Treo. Is there any way to import Entourage to keep the categories, without having to go thru and individually reassign events in iCal to specific calendars? When I have tried importing Entourage to iCal, everything goes to a Entourage calendar and I lose all my categories.
Thanks in advance for any advice/guidance that you may be able to share

Is this a one-time switch? If so, the easiest thing might be to set up a "view" in Entourage for each of your categories. (If you haven't done this before it's pretty easy to do, create a new view, select the filtering options you want, in this case "Category" "Is" <category name here>). Save the view and then select it under "Calendar Views" in the Calendar window.
When you select the calendar view you will see all your events for that category. You can select all of them and then drag them to either you desktop, or a folder. This will create an individual .ics for each of them. You can then drag all the .ics files at once into an open iCal window. Whatever calendar is active in iCal is the calendar the events will be imported to.
You'll need to repeat this for each category -> calendar combination.
(I just tried this and it worked for me, you can even undo the import if you so desire.)
If you need to sync the 2 programs then this obviously won't do it for you. I don't know of any programs out there that would do this, so if you really need it you could create an applescript to take care of all of this. (That would be time-consuming, but once you get one category -> calendar process scripted it should be easy after that!)
Post back with any questions.

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