Create iCal events from anywhere? not working in 10.5.4

There is a wonderful automator workflow that really helps creating new events on the fly.....
Well it doesn't work any more in 10.5
below is the tip from macworld.
http://www.macworld.com/article/132889/2008/04/autoicalevents.html
Strangely, the workflow runs fine when used inside Automator; it just fails when run as an application.
Anybody else having this issue?
Anybody else have a fix?

So it appears that this is a know issue with Apple Support.

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