Why is iCal is creating duplicates of my calendars?

I have recently "upgraded" to Lion and it has created all sorts of weird behaviour on my MBPro.
I synced my iPhone with my MBPro and suddenly all my calendar events were duplicated (NB. not the actual calendars).
So I decided to restore my Calendar folder from a previous backup via Time Machine... this worked for about 10 seconds, displaying the single entries for my various calendars as normal. Then a few seconds later, it all goes back to double vision – all the entries are duplicated!
I tried again, this time disabling any iCloud accounts and even disabling the wifi... it still happened!
What is going on?
Please help me!!

Check your "Calendars" on your Calendar app. With iCloud, you have your Calendars duplicated in iCloud. The New Lion Calendar allows you to see your MBPro claendar and/or your iCloud Calendar.
I chose to display only my iCloud calendar entries on my iMac Calendar. like so:
I suppose if my iMac and iCloud calendars are not synced then i would not have the duplicate problem. But This way my Calendar entries are saved on both my iMac and iCloud and I can chose which I normally want to have on my Calendar.
I do the same with my iPhone. I show just my iCloud Calendar.

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