UNSUB Entourage from iCal?!

I don't hate Entourage -- OK, I used to not hate it! -- but I'm about to get on the water tower with a high-powered rifle ...
Unlike many on here, apparently, I did get get Entourage calendar to sync with iCal, both in Leopard and Tiger. Here's the problem: I cannot get it to stop.
Instead on the Entourage calendar updates overwriting or merging with the Entourage item in Ical, it just adds additional calendars! Time after time after time!
I have so many Entourage calendars in iCal now that it only finishes loading after God knows how long, and then, of course, because I apparently can't Shift-Click a bunch, they must be slooowly Deleted one by one.
Only to reappear, Ninja-like, in their legions again later.
Yes, I have: undid the sync on iCal; deselected the appropriate sync options in Entourage. But the ghostly and crash-worthy Entourage calendars still return to haunt and mock me.
I'd take the path of least resistance and just use Entourage -- I don't hate it that much -- but I've got years of saved messages in my Apple Mail folders that I refer to.
And really, are we Apple people or Microsoft people? I think you know the answer.
Somebody, please, I'm beggin' ya, tell me how to disable the Entourage corruption of iCal.

Hey Debra,
It sounds like you have a entourage calendar in iCal. Just disable syncing in Entourage preferences then delete the calendar in iCal. When the Entourage calendar is no longer in iCal it should not show up in iTunes.
This article shows howto get to the Entourage syncing preferences.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1670
To delete the entourage calendar, launch iCal> highlight the calendar> Edit> Delete.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iCal/3.0/en/9878.html
Jason

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You can use Thundebird to replace Entourage and get the Lighting.Add-on to Thunderbird to replace the calendar of Entourage which USED TO synch over ical to Mobile Me as follows:
1. How to set up the iCal for Lightning and MobileMe
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yes, be careful
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Whenyou check what is written in the location field, it will end with a “/” which is correct.
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BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING - BACK UP ALL YOUR DATA IN ENTOURAGE.
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How can I restore my data from iCal? I didn't make any backup, but I use time machine with an external HD. I deleted iCal when I deleted my gmail account. I have tried to restore, but I can only restore the iCal software and not the data.

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