Why oh why can't i default ical alerts to "none"?

Despite the fact that in Preferences I change the alerts to "none", all sorts of events in iCal are still defaulting to 35791394 minutes after, or some such nonsense. Sometimes 3 or 4 identical alerts are listed. How do I eliminate this junk?

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