Problems syncing iCal with iOS 5/iPhone 4

I upgraded my iPhone 4 to iOS 5 when it first came out. Since upgrading, my phone has not been syncing properly with iCal on my laptop. I originally set up my phone to sync to iCloud, but had problems with duplicate calendar entries so I disabled iCloud syncing for my calendar. Now it seems that the entries I put directly on my laptop sync to my phone, but the entries I add directly onto my phone do not sync to my laptop. I double checked the default calendar on my phone to make sure the right calendars are syncing, and the default calendar is Home, which is displaying my laptop as well. I'm not sure if there are other settings that would affect my calendar so that the sync is only one way.
Any advice would be appreciated!

Just got off the phone with tech support. This is what the guy suggested:
On my phone, DELETE iCloud account (Settings, iCloud). In the past, I simply turned everything off except for Location Services. Apparently turning it off isn't enough, you have to DELETE your account. If you want it back, sign in using your Apple ID. I'm hesistant to do that because of the problems but maybe down the road, I'll try it out again for Location Services only.
Once I deleted the iCloud account, I could sync from my computer (MacBook Pro, version 10.6.8) to my iPhone 4s and vice versa without any problems.
It does appear that the duplications are still there but that's minor compared to the other.
Unrelated but, I was having problems syncing my photos onto my phone, as well. I keep my photos in folder on my desktop and categorize them within that folder (2009, 2010, etc). One of the folders inside the primary folder wouldn't sync to my phone. I was able to solve it previously by changing the name of the folder but that stopped working. Tech support suggested creating a new folder and transferring everything into it and choosing the new folder to sync with. Busy work to be sure but it was successful.

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