Syncing 2 Macs & Lots of Items Added or Deleted Every Time

I sync my iCal calenders between my home and work computers with .Mac. It has been working great though recently, the last couple weeks, every time I start up my computer at work and syncs it says it wants to add 40 some items and when I go home at night and start & sync that computer it says it wants to delete 40 some items. It is always about 40, which is more events than I ever usually add on a day to day basis. Can anyone figure out what is going on here? When I check my Calender it looks like everything is OK, but I am getting increasingly nervous that things are/are going to start disappearing without me noticing it. If there was some way to figure out what items were causing the abnormality I could go and get rid of them off of both computers.
Any ideas would be great, thanks....

Zachary,
I think if you just check one of your computers to be sure the data is "correct" there, you can then use .Mac system preferences (advanced tab) on both Mac to "Reset Sync Data..."
Comeback if you need more help than this.
BTW: Very few problems are associated with .Mac sync though several do appear associated with iSync (and there is a very good set of trouble shooting direction for that here: Craig Fer, "iCal crashes on launch", 07:57pm Jul 22, 2005 CDT )

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