I can sync Outlook for mac with the ical calendar and the ical with google calendar, but I cannot get the google calendar appts in outlook.

The idea is to sync all to google so that is the main calendar that shows up in outlook etc. On my PC this works fine.

Please help me.... 
Why, every time I get an Office for Mac update, does it then delete every event from my iCal calendar, even though it was in the iCal calendar that I created the event?
it is getting annoying!