IPhoto, iCal & iTunes entirely disappeared in separate events

Hi.
A month ago, I discovered iPhoto was completely gone, not just from my dock, including ALL my PHOTOS. Perplexing though it was, I had backed up a month prior and time machined it back right away (minus whatever I had done since backup, of course).
Yesterday my iCal did the same - the application is gone and I found the dock's shortcut icon in the trash. Then today I booted up to find my iTunes gone, as well. Fortunately, though, my 22GB of music is still in the Music folder.
Not cool. I back up about once a week now, but I can't do it every time I change something. Anyone know how I can keep my apps from randomly disappearing? And what's with the iTrend?
Thank you!

Thanks for the suggestions. I did a smash & grab of several things that seem to have corrected the issue. To answer your question, I had deleted the "Home" and "Work" calendars from iCal (part of the default calendars) a long time ago, but they decided to re-appear for syncing (in iTunes, not in iCal). I tried the following, which seemed to work.
1. Added the "Home" and "Work" calendars back to iCal I had deleted awhile ago (but still show up in iTunes for iPhone syncing).
2. Turned on .Mac syncing for Address Book and iCal (had never been on)
3. Reset sync history as you suggested in iSync (though it told it isn't used for .Mac syncing).
4. Deleted the Home and Work calendars from iCal. Quit iCal.
5. Performed a repair permissions through Disk Utility.
5. Performed a .Mac sync through System Preferences, through the Advanced tab Reset Sync Data button, replacing anything on .Mac with my PB data.
6. Once that was done, performed a sudo periodic daily, weekly & monthly through Terminal.
7. Next did a sudo update_prebinding -root / -force through Terminal.
8. Rebooted. Zapped PRAM 3 times (option-cmd-P-R) during reboot.
This smash & grab fixed the calendars showing up iTunes inappropriately. Not sure which part was most effective, but I didn't feel like doing a detailed troubleshoot -- I just wanted it fixed. Side-effect: my .Mac e-mail account did not show up in iTunes for syncing once I fixed the iCal issue. Solution: with iTunes still open, I opened Mail, changed an account setting, saved it, changed it back to the original setting, saved it again. iTunes now showed my email account as available for syncing.
Seems as if the sync process could use some QA still. Shouldn't have to mess like this with Apple-to-Apple apps & hardware. This is the sort of stuff I used to have to mess with using iSync & Missing Sync with my Treo 650. Oh well, at least it's fixed for now.

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