ToDo's in Mail

After visiting a local Apple store, I noticed a way of creating a "todo" from an email. The video tip showed selecting/highlighting the text, say "dinner tonight", then clicking on the "todo" tab at the top of the menu bar. This created the "todo" which you could then add an alarm, change the date etc. The todo then showed up in the users iCal at that time under the calendar selected. However when I do this, all I get is a todo under the todo list, nothing in the actual calendar. And whats more I can't select any other calendar than "mail todo". I asked a Genius and their only (and it was a fairly vague response) was that it was something to do with the mail item being on my mac, as opposed to a MobileMe email. This doesn't or didn't seem to be definitive enough for me.
Has anyone seen the tip video I'm describing and/or can anyone explain how to create a todo that appears in the calendar? The reason being is that as we all know, todo's don't show up on the iPhone, but if they were added to an iCal calendar, then at least there would be an event.
Cheers.

Another post of mine explains this somewhat better than the "genius" you spoke with:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2306030&tstart=0
Essentially, if you go into Mail's Preferences and choose the option to store your notes and 'to do' items 'On My Mac,' and if you access your email through POP as opposed to IMAP, you can then associate the 'to do' items created from within an email with your other iCal calendars but will lose the ability to sync the 'to do' items using MobileMe.
It's convoluted and somewhat esoteric, which is surprising for a Mac.

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Process: Mail [405]
Path: /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail
Identifier: com.apple.mail
Version: 3.0 (912.1)
Build Info: Mail-9120100~1
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [324]
Date/Time: 2007-12-27 16:56:57.356 +0100
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5 (9A581)
Report Version: 6
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 18
Application Specific Information:
-[iToolsAccount _synchronizeAccountWithServerWithUserInput:]
-[IMAPGateway _allowClientOperationThrough:]
-[LibraryIMAPStore openSynchronouslyUpdatingMetadata:]
-[MessageContentController _fetchContentsForMessage:fromStore:withViewingState:]
-[MetadataManager getAllCalendarStoreData]
* Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'trying to set a non-ToDo MailboxUid for a ToDo. The MailboxUid for a ToDo must be a ToDosMailboxUid'
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0 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x918d7114 __TERMINATING_DUE_TO_UNCAUGHT_EXCEPTION__ + 4
1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x9681009b objcexceptionthrow + 40
2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x918d704b +[NSException raise:format:arguments:] + 155
3 com.apple.Foundation 0x939f00f4 -[NSAssertionHandler handleFailureInMethod:object:file:lineNumber:description:] + 116
4 com.apple.MessageFramework 0x003a5bf4 -[LibraryToDo setMailboxUid:] + 205
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eax: 0xa01780f0 ebx: 0x9681007c ecx: 0xa01771a0 edx: 0x006bb000
edi: 0x0ee0b040 esi: 0x005376a0 ebp: 0xb0f0c948 esp: 0xb0f0c948
ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00000286 eip: 0x918d7114 cs: 0x00000017
ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x0000001f gs: 0x00000037
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Message was edited by: Michael Evans3

Sorry, posted to wrong section. See Leopard Mail section.

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