Sync iCal with multiple Macs using Dropbox?

I recently purchased an old PowerBook G4 (as in, Mini-VGA old) to take with me to class for note taking. I was hoping to be able to sync my main iCal from my Mac (unibody MacBook Pro, pre-Thunderbolt) to my "new" PowerBook G4. It would really be easiest if i could use iCloud, I know, but my PowerBook is running OS X 10.5.8, so no iCloud there.
I Googled my issue, and quickly found Wired's How-To Wiki page "Sync Your Life with Dropbox" (http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Sync_Your_Life_With_Dropbox), which has you, using Terminal, move your iCal calendar files into your Dropbox in the first step, and during step two I get lost.
When I type in the command (as per the second step)
ln -s ~/Dropbox/ Calendars/ ~/Library /Calendars
into Terminal, I receive "No such file or directory." Thinking the spaces between Dropbox/Calendars and Library/Calendars were erroneous, I attemped removing them, only to return "File exists."
I'm not at all savvy with using Terminal, but appreciate any and all help I can get.
Thanks!

Roger,
Thanks for such a quick response. I am strictly copying and pasting that command (which then enters with the tilde ~). You mentioned both username and the tilde and your meaning of the word "that" becomes a little ambigous, did you mean to use the tilde or replace it with my username?
Roger Wilmut1 wrote:
This is used to indicate your username (the name of your Home Folder) and it is that you should be typing.
Also, being as cautious as I am using Terminal, I only removed those spaces on the recommendation of a prevoius support discussion: https://discussions.apple.com/message/11039672#11039672, I'm far too chicken to mess around in Terminal with so little knowledge of what I could accidentally do.

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