Multiple alarms in ical after import

is their a global way to remove a 2nd alarm that seems to have happened after importing from outlook. I have 2 alrms and i think this is making my ical file and entry numbers huge.
Can you globally remove alarms and other ical event functions

CaptainStarwars,
FYI, this multiple alarm issue is affecting a lot of iCal users under a lot of different circumstances—not just import. Do a search and look for other threads.
My observation is that MobileMe is responsible somehow. I fixed ALL my repeating events last week so that they all had a single alarm (like they're supposed to), and today duplicate alarms started showing up again.

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