Trying to copy Tiger's iCal data to a clean install of Leopard...

I have just clean-installed Leopard onto my MacBook, after having done a complete backup of my entire hard drive. I have not used Apple's own Backup software, but rather a 3rd-party backup application, which effectively has just cloned my Tiger drive onto an external hard-drive.
The problem I am having is that I am trying to migrate my Tiger calendars to Leopard's iCal, manually copying across all data, but I cannot figure out which data to copy across to make it work.
Leopard's iCal folders don't seem to match up with Tiger's iCal folders, so I can't just write over like-for-like.
I tried deleting the *User > Library > Calenders* folder from the MacBook, but there was no Calendars folder in the same location on the external drive's backup. All the iCal data seemed to be stored in a *User > Library > Application Support > iCal* folder.
I also copied this folder from the backup to my MacBook (even though there wasn't an iCal folder there on the MacBook) and when I re-launched iCal I got a message saying *"Upgrading iCal calendars"* and a progress bar, but then a second or so later, I get an error message saying *"Failed to migrate iCal calendars"*.
I guess there's more I need to be looking out for...
Does anyone know how to do this?

Did you read my post, and the article you pointed me to?
The solution in the article you pointed me to relies on having used Apple's own "Backup" software, and in my original post above, I clearly stated:
*I have not used Apple's own Backup software, but rather a 3rd-party backup application, which effectively has just cloned my Tiger drive onto an external hard-drive.*
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