Well, having posted the above, I was surprised to watch my calendar slowly, over about an hour, reconstitute all its events, blank days filling in with my overcrammed schedule. I have to guess that one of 2 things happened---either the calendar reloaded its events from my work-based Microsoft Exchange server, or it somehow went through a rebuilding process of its own...if anyone has a clue how to prevent Entourage calendars from disappearing, please respond....