Restoring iCal or Entourage calendar events

Having difficulties with MobileMe creating duplicates of the same calendar event and contacts. Entourage is my application of choice but I noticed ical was creating the same contact and calendar event every time I created it in Entourage. Further, iCAL displayed several Entourage calendars in the calendar list. So I assumed it was iCal that was updating all my devices (2 iphones, imac, macbookpro and ipad. So I deleted all the entourage calendars except one appearing in ical, then synced mobileme and ALL MY CALENDAR EVENTS DISAPPEARED in both ical and entourage on all the devices and at me.com. What's even more strange is that ipad still shows the 8 entourage calendars none of which have any events.
So what has this to do with Time Machine? Since everything was gone I figured I'd restore an earlier ical and/or entourage from Time Machine. But when I did, none of the events reappeared! Do I need to restore a specific file rather than the application? If so, where is that file?
HELP MY LIFE IS IN THE CALENDAR!

It looks like when you deleted the Entourage calendars in iCal you deleted the wrong one, the one with all of your events. If your events are still on your iPad, I think we can get them back into MobileMe, and from there to Entourage. Fortunately for you, your iPad isn't syncing correctly, so it didn't get the instructions to delete everything.
On your iPad, go to the Settings app. click on "Mail, Contacts, Calendars".
Click on your MobileMe account.
Turn Calendars off. When it asks, choose to "Keep on my iPad."
Now the calendar events on your iPad are separate from MobileMe. Turning Calendar sync back on and choosing to merge your events with MobileMe should add them to MobileMe.
In the future, before you delete a calendar in iCal, uncheck all the other calendars so you can see what is in the calendar you are deleting. My guess is you had multiple Entourage calendars with the same color.

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