Restoring Old Calendar

I need help! For some reason iCal, Entourage 2008, and Leopard are not syncing properly. I keep getting double entries on iCal, which are then transfered to my iphone. Last night I deleted the Entourage folder out of iCal, since I thought it wasn't fully synced. Well, it ended up erasing my entire Entourage/exchange calendar.
I still have the calendar (including dupes) on my iphone. Is there a way I can restore the iphone calendar back into iCal/Entourage? Your help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Juan

I just experienced the same problem. Some calendar events were in iCal/Entourage 30 times. I noticed I had 2 entourage folders in ical, so I deleted them, and it deleted all my appointment from entourage. Everything is still in my iPhone, but I'm afraid that if I try to sync it I will lose everything!
I'm running Leopard, but for some reason time machine wasn't seeing my external drive, so no backups for the last day or so. Am I up the creek????
Please help.
Joel

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Menu\File\Revert to Database Backup.
Well I was scared of the Revert to Database Backup. It works. When you do so, you just point the program to the backup that you just made from the other machine, if it's what you are trying to accomplish.
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Maybe everybody knows how to do this and I am a slow brain - Leon.

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Kevin,
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