Publishing Calendar Group to .Mac Causes Duplications

I am running iCal 2.0 in Tiger. I have three calendars under the Calendar group "Published". I then publish the "Published" calendar group to my .Mac account. Every time I refresh the publication (which happens automatically with "auto-refresh") it duplicates every entry. This is repeatable so I can have four, five, etc. instances of the same event published. If I unsubscribe and republish, it starts over again.
This only affects the published calendars on the .Mac server (ical.mac.com), not any local or .Mac Sync calendars.
I'd appreciate any help.

I seem to have this working now, G5 and Powerbook both running the same iCal calendar which is syncronised. Both machines have publish switched on along with auto update.
One thing I noticed while testing this evening, the names I was originally publishing under were things like "Study Calendar" or "Myweb.net Calendar", when published using these types of names (spaces and punctuation) the .mac website calendar always had a last updated time of 1970.
When I republished the calendar using a single word name like "Calendar", the published date was correct on the website.
Once I saw the publish day as being correct, I turned on auto update and proceeded to make changes in iCal on both the PB and the G5. All the changes thus far have been syncronised correctly between the machine AND with the website without duplication.
I am not sure if this is a long term solution as I've only been testing for 10 minutes or so. Perhaps the duplications will come back after a while but its certainly something to look into if your publishing your calendar with names longer than one word or with punctuation.
Cheers
Zeni

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