Turning of Alarms on Synced Calendars?

I have a synced Google calendar with iCal. The problem is that the synced Google Calendar with iCal (OSx 10.6) is sending alarms that are not on the Google Calendar. Is there a way to turn off "Alarms"?

All,
I have the same problem, I think, and its bloody annoying.
Setup:
I have several Apple devices (MacBook, iPhone, iPad) which all sync to my Google Apps calendar and update each other in real-time using CalDAV. Quite handy actually, except for the following...
Problem:
I don't typically use Alarms. For some reason, about a month ago, all the events in my calendar suddenly had Alarms configured and I can't turn them off. If I:
(1) Create a new event and don't configure any Alarm, an Alarm gets auto-configured for it anyway. Almost like a setting somewhere is auto-populating a default Alarm.
(2) If I try to edit an existing alarm, and remove it, it just re-populates it after I save.
As noted, I have several synced devices. So for every dang iCal event, I get multiple alarms, e-mail alerts and etc. As I said, really annoying!
Troubleshooting:
I have searched and searched for a default setting in iCal and Google Aps, but can't find anything that would 'force' a default Alarm. I tried clicking on the iCal --> Preferences --> Advanced --> [ ] Turn off all alarms setting, but it didn't work.
Help?
Message was edited by: Bones

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