Importing iCal Calendar into Google

I don't know if this is a problem with iCal or with Google, but here goes:
I'm trying to sync my iCal with my Google calendars... I want to import what I currently have in iCal into Google calendars so that everything with be in sync. I export my calendars from iCal, and then import them into Google. Some calendars work fine, but for others, I get this error message:
Processed zero events.
Failed to import events: Unable to process your iCal/CSV file..
Any ideas on what I can do? I tried it both before and after upgrading to Snow Leopard, and no change.

Thanks for the suggestion with BusySync. The problem I see with that is that it isn't an iCal plugin, but it launches an entirely separate application instead of iCal.
As for the problem at hand I'm wondering if it's related to repeating future/past events and/or the file size because of that?

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