Serious Duplicates Issue with iCal calendars

I purchased a new mini this week to replaced a failed system  After setting up a new account I tried merging the data I had on the system (which was migrated off a back up system I had available),  The sync  spawned about 15 copies of a half dozen calendars plus that I maintain.  Mobileme still looked perfect, but my desktop system iCal client was a mess.
I spent an hour and a half in chat with the mobile me support people and they declared I did not have a synce issue, it was an app issue.  They suggested I delete iCal.  We got half way there when they threw in the towl and sent me to the intergrated apps folks.
The first iApp tech told me we needed to renstall iCal from the original disk.  In the middle of looking for the disks we gotcut off.  The next tech explained that I could not just replace iCal, I had to do an operating system reinstall, so I did. 
After deleting files from the HC and user libraries for iCal, I found it still did not wor and reinstalling the o/s, it still had over a humndred calendar instances show up.  So, I tried to go back to hand removing each calendar one at a time.  I did this for about a dozen.  Then they inexplicably showed back up.  I can't delete them they keep showing up (but not on Mobileme).  THey reappear as if by majic; I have sync set to manual so I don't even understand what process is going out and retrieving the duplicates again.
I invested about 5 hours with apple today, with no resolution.  Deleted accts, pref files, app, reinstalled o/s.  They've closed my ticket without confirming my issue was resolved and are now closed for the day.  Very frustrating, I've had sync issues of the years from time to time, but this is baffling.
Any suggestions?  Deeply appreciate any help, I'm make a living as consultant and this is eating my lunch.
Thanks!

Have had this problem recently. Even after Upgrade to Snow Leopard; also installed Office 2008 with Entourage. The duplication continues and deleting iCal calendars and then repopulating does not keep the entries from multiplying. I have cleaned the calendar and backed it up in Entourage, but syncing really is not working properly. This is a real pain since you can't sync the iPod or iphone through iCal to Entourage.

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