Updating to the version in maemo extras - deval finally fixed the problems. Though oddly I noticed it brought back an event from 2007. I use to have lab meetings scheduled every Wednesday but they ended last year (in 2007). For some odd reason when I synchronized mcalendar with Google it added it to mcalendar (yet it doesn't show up in GPE calendar) or my Google calendars.

I just deleted the event from mcalendar, though I thought I'd note the odd bug.