Calendars in ical disappeared after 10.5.6 update

my calendars (4 calendars) and all my to-do item have disappeared from ical after I updated to 10.5.6. Not only that, but most of the items in the menu bar are grayed out so I can not create new events or new to do's. I deleted the com.apple.ical plist and I restored the calendar folder in user>library from time machine and it didn't work. I have added a new calendar item on my iphone and ical asked me to sync it on my macbook pro, but nothing is showing. Also, ical freeze every time I try to close it and I have to force quit.
Thanks for any help.

No, at the time I am writing this the topic is not answered. Simply applying the 10.5.6 combo update did not work for me when I had this problem.
This did NOT work either - http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1906?viewlocale=en_US.
This is what worked:
0) make sure both iCal and Mail are closed, and it might not be a bad idea to temporarily shut off any syncing software you may have active
1) start with the calendar folders from Tiger that are located in Users/{yourusername}/Library/Application Support/iCal/Sources, the ones with crazy names like "2E28E612-467E-4981-975E-D07A31AC39C4.calendar" which contain files" called "corestorage.ics," "Index," and "info.plist"; if "all" you have is an iCal backup library (.icbu file), then you can go to a Tiger machine, restore to that iCal, and then take the above calendar folders from it
2) copy the calendar folders to the desktop of your Leopard machine
3) read this thread (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1196389&tstart=0) down to the posts by Thierry Girard
4) do what he says with the text editor, but you can use TextEdit, and look for either the SEQUENCE:-1 or the PRIORITY:-1. Set either one to just 1 (remove the negative sign); I had some value related to a MICROSOFT this or that, and I did not change it at all.
5) take the edited calendar folders from your desktop and move them into /Users/{yourusername}/Library/Calendars
6) start up iCal; at this point, I was in business
I hope this is helpful.
RR

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