Unreadable overlapping events in iCal

I want to have events start at the same time. This sometimes results in ugly, unreadable overlapping events in weekly and daily views. Are overlapping, readable events possible?
Message was edited by: edalz
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I can tell you my solution, as I had the same exact (Jan Feb 2009) problem.
I work for a web development firm and we were playing around with an ICS auto-generator. That is a web app that auto generates an iCal (ics) file so that one could place it on a web page as a link, then someone could click it and the event would auto-place in their iCal (or Outlook, etc.) application. We tried it with event X (which worked as we thought). But...
The entry was the cause of my crazy overlap, as when I removed it my iCal went back to normal. So...
If you've recently clicked on something on the web that populated your iCal - REMOVE IT! We're back to the drawing board (and no, we did not deploy it publicly).

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