Why is ical adding multiple alerts to my recurring events?

I have searched for this issue in the support topics but can only find very old threads with links to apps that do not work. My recurring events in ical are all of a sudden getting many many alerts added to them. Every once in while I try deleting the event and creating a new one, or deleting the extra alerts for all future events and YET THEY KEEP COMING BACK. It's super annoying when I am getting 10 reminders for one event and have to clear each one of them. PLEASE HELP!

Thanks Malcolm.I'm afraid this issue started for me after updating to iOS6!

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You can personalize the way in which you receive alerts.
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