MobileMe - Muiliple iCals on two Macs, iPhone (Sync problem)

I have two Macs : G5 PowerMac and MacPro.
I have set up-iCal on PowerMac with a lot of Calenders to cover items like walking, music, meetings A, meetings B, activity C, etc.
Sent email from one computer to the other to Synchronised iCal. However, I am now using MobileMe. What is strange is that the PowerMac does not find the "extra" calenders that I created on the PowerMac whereas, using MobileMe as well, the iphone finds them.
I repat: both Macs synchronise iCals to the MobileMe however the extar calenders in the PowerMac are not sychronised back to the MacPro portable. However, they must be on MobileMe because the iPhoe finds them all ! Why?
Thanks. Kevin GARDINER

I think I have my own answer !
I have worked out that the only way to proceed is to select either the PowerPC or the MacPro PC as the "MAster Calender". Then in the MobileMe preferences, I reinitialse the data with a transfer from the MAster iCal to the MobileMe. I wait for the date to be transferred to Apple's site "MOBILEME". Then on the second machine, do the opposite: reinitialise the data and transfer FROM MobileMe to the computer. I then have the same updated data on both machines and also on the MobileMe site. For the iphone, it gets, within the 15mins "push" settings, the data from MobileMe. THus all four sets of dataa are synchronised.
Thanks for reading this.
Regards,
Kevin

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