Repeating Calendar events & Extreme slow Syncing in Itunes

Every since I have upgraded to Lion, I have been getting multiple entries on my iphone from Ical on my mac. For example if I have an event scheduled for tomorrow on my mac and move it one hour up or back, I will get 3-4 entries on my iphone when I sync. I sync through Itunes and have already tried replacing the iphone events with the mac. This has not worked. Additionally syncing between my mac and iphone takes a little over 13 minutes each time. Any ideas would be appreciated. Prior to Lion sycning took under 3 minutes and no duplicates. Would appreicate any help someone might could give me on this problem.

This link provides the data included with your iPhone's backup, which includes photos and/or video in your iPhone's Camera Roll, contact info, various iPhone settings, recent calls, call favorites, SMS/MMS, Safari history/cache/cookies, email account settings, wi-fi network settings, 3rd party app settings and data created and stored by a 3rd party app.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3603
Something may be wrong with your backup or with some of the data included with the backup since it shouldn't take 12 hours or anywhere close to that. My iPhone's backup takes well less than 5 minutes. You can delete the existing backup and create a new backup to see if this makes any difference. An initial new backup will take longer that succeeding backups.

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