Still more crashing iCal- can anyone help?

Question

Help! I’m suffering the crashing iCal syndrome. It started either early this week or last week when I used automatic software update to update from 10.4.9 to 10.4.10 (and the included security update). iCal version is 2.0.5.
I sync iCal to a few iPods, and a Motorola Razr phone. I do not use .mac.
Computer is iMac 2 GHz Intel Core Duo w/ 2 GB RAM.
I have scanned the forums here and based on the advice, here is what I have done:
Fixed duplicate fonts
Deleted the iCal.plist files (under user/library/Perferences)
Deleted the iCal Caches folder (under user/Library/Caches/iCal)
Deleted the iCal folder (under user/library/Application Support)
Restarted system
I have repeated this process (or portions of process) countless times over the past week.
iCal continues to crash. I had copied over original iCal folder to our MacBook, (running 10.4.9) and everything works perfectly. It just will not work on the iMac. I can’t update the MacBook software until iCal works again on the iMac (my primary system).
If I put the original iCal folder back, it syncs OK and I can view my activities on my iPod.
Anyone have any ideas I have not already tried???

Answer 1

David,
I am also using a Razr (V3i version) and am synchronising iCal calenders and contacts with iSync using bluetooth and a .mac account.
After resetting Sync History and iCal reverting to a working state, during the next sync (1st after iCal fix) with my V3i, iSync crashed (at the exact point where it was beginning to sync with the V3i).
For me I reopened iSync and it worked perfectly on my next sync.
However, as iSync is the most likely culprit, I would suggest the following;-
Reset iSync, sync history again and attempt another sync... If you get the same result I would attempt the following;-
(1) Remove the Razr from the list of sync devices within iSync.
(2) Reset iSync sync history once more.
(3) Quit iSync -> reopen iSync -> add the Razr as if it is a new sync device.
(4) Attempt another sync.
Good Luck!