ICal dead. Interface and menus permanently frozen.

Hey,
My iCal has remained inaccessible for the past few days. At launch, the interface is visible, but I doesn't do anything. When I select a menu item such as Preferences, nothing happens. If I select 'Back up iCal', a requester pops down for a moment then just as quickly disappears. I can't change From Day/Week/Month view on the interface, but can temporality from the menus. If another window obscures the App, that portion will lose its border shading.
iCal's basically completely useless. A real drag since I rely on iCal for so much of my business (I'm a film director) and I'm kinda screwed right now. Any help would be greatly appreciated, including recommendations for switching to a different and more stable calendar app.
Some specs:
Running iCal on both by Intel MacBook and Dual PowerPC G5 tower. Using latest version of Leopard.
Thanks in advance,
meni

tblum,
Quit iCal, and try removing the com.apple.iCal.plist file from your Macintosh HD/Users/yourusername/Library/Preferences Folder.
Use Finder>Go>Depress the "Option" key>Library>Preferences. Drag the .plist file to your desktop, log out/in or restart and check iCal for functionality.

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