Mobile Me wiped out iCal

I was working in iCal on my Macbook Pro and noticed that it started syncing with mobile me. The screen blinked a few times it synced and everything was fine. Then it did it again about 2 minute later and all of my calendar events were gone in iCal, in Mobile Me and on My iPHone.
How can I get the information back into iCal? Is there a backup copy from a previous day filed in my library?
What options do I have? I think the same calendar is on my iMac 24 at home. It is turned off right now, so it has not synced with Mobile Me in a few days.

Disconnect your iMac 24" from the Internet when you start it up. Open iCal and go to File -> Save iCal (I believe that's what it says in English; mine's in French). There you can save your entire iCal data to a backup file.
Since you subscribe to MobileMe, you can also go into your iDisk and download the Backup 3 application. This will allow you to set up a schedule to back up, among many things, your calendar. You can do this on a daily basis if you make lots of changes every day, or maybe a weekly basis if you do not make changes very often.
Unfortunately, it seems like Time Machine doesn't work the same way with iCal as it works with, say, Address Book. In other words, you can't go to a date in iCal and then enter Time Machine to show you what was there as you "go back in time".
You shouldn't rely on your syncing with MobileMe as a backup; as you've seen, a bad sync can quickly remove all your good copies.

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