Lost current ical events

Today, I lost a number of events from approximately Dec 1st forward. All prior events are still there but some are repeated multiple times. Some of the current and future events however are not missing.
After some head scratching, it appears that ical has possibly reverted to the state at the time the last sync was performed to my iphones since the ical data remaining matches my phone. The odd thing is that neither phone has been synced for a couple weeks.
My last ical backup is older than the current state of ical so that won't help.
Does ical keep any recent file that would have the lost data? Where are ical data files located? All the files in the ApplicationSupport folder date to Aug '09.
We have not lost much but our entire family schedule is/was on this imac. it will be hard to recreate especially without any idea of just what was lost.
Any ideas?

By the way I neglected to mention that I checked my password, deleted my ical caches and restarted my computer

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