Problem Importing Entourage into iCal

I've had several problems with iCal recently but the most frustrating one is that I can't import from Entourage. I've selected File > Import > Import Entourage Data but the application essentially locks up and no data is imported. When I Force Quit iCal and relaunch, I see an Entourage calendar in the calendar list but there's no data in it.
The same is true when I select the Sync with iCal and .Mac option in my Entourage Sync Services.
Any thoughts on why this is occuring?
Thanks!

Just finished doing a similar import. See the last entry of the thread from 10 Jan.
What I did was set up a view for each "category" of events in Entourage, then select that view, select all events in that view window and drag them into a folder for that "category" on the desktop.
Then created a calendar in iCal for each "category" and dragged the .ics files from the folder into that calendar in iCal.
The problems I encountered were:
1) All of my "all day" events in Entourage became timed events from 00:00 Day X to 00:00 Day X+1, so I had to do a lot of editing. (See comment in thread)
2) Need to proof that all of the events make it into the folder. I found that when I was trying to transfer lots (100+) events to a calendar, I had to go thru the Entourage view and transfer events in batches.
Good luck! For the most part, I am happy that I made the switch.

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