Why does iCal list birthdays 3, 4, 5 even 6 times on the date??

This is getting worse! Instead of the birthday appearing once on each birthdate, I now get 3 or 4 and in some cases even 6 of the exact same "all day" list of birthdays!
In the past I have tried to delete all but 1 - but now they are back in greater numbers than before!
Is there a way to eliminate all these numerous birthdate announcements and then restart iCal to have it just take the ones from Address Book and list one time, not many?
I have MenuCalendarClock for iCal installed but have NOT chosen to have MenuCalendarClock set-up any birthdays or transfer anything.
Thanks as this is getting a bit crazy! And I don't want to NOT HAVE ANY birthdays- I like having them and the alarms etc.
Best regards,
Steve Schulte
Thursday 11 November 2010

I have the same issue, but I think I know why. I believe it is becasue you may have more than one contact list synced. I have got my contacts synced with Yahoo and I think iCal is also listing the birthdays on these contacts along side the same birthdays for the contacts stored on my machine. I only get 1 set of birthdays if I turn of the sync with Yahoo. Kind of defeats the purpose of the sync of contacts though then!

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