Adress book dates to iCal

I would like to have the dates I entered on an Address Book Card to iCal. I know to select "show birthdays" to get birthdays shown on iCal. But, what of anniversaries or other custom dates I need associated with a contact. How can I get all those dates also to automatically be added to iCal.
For example. I have a friend, who is European, where they celebrate a name day. So, for that contact I have a 1) Birthday Entry, 2) an Anniversary Entry, and 3) a Name Day Entry (which is a custom date field I created in my address book).
The only option I can find is for birthdays to be displayed. Is there another way???

When you create the custom date, close the editing aspect. You now see the date on the card. Right or alternate click the date. Select: "Create New iCal Event". It brings up a dialogue box. You have to name it. Then, you select the "repeat" option, and select the "Every Year" option. Then press, Add to iCal. This is manual labor, but It will now be repeated every year. You will also have to select a calendar. You may have to manually, create the calendar. Call it "important dates", or "name celebrations" or what ever you want.
After you set up the repeat option, it will automatically be repeated every year on that date.

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Adding events to a calendar
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The event appears on your calendar at the adjusted time. Turning on time zone support also allows you to view all the events in the main calendar view in a different time zone than your computer's time zone. For more information, click "Tell me more."
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Hi, I have checked option "Show Birthday Calendar" in iCal, but birthdays from Adress Book not shown. I found where is problem: Contact's birthdays from local adress book (On My Mac) are shown properly in iCal, but contact's birthdays from my adress book on Exchange 2007 (RU9) are not shown... I think this is a bug to be fixed...

Wish I'd looked here first! Have just spent a couple of hours trying to get birthdays to appear in iCal after completing an upgrade from Exchange 2003 to 2007. Same problem as reported above - they don't appear. I've tried Dates 2 iCal (shareware with good reviews) but it doesn't seem to help.
Copying the Exchange address book to 'on my Mac' doesn't seem to do anything either.
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Thanks for your quick reply.
I tried this for the iCal application, however without any success. In actual fact in Home/Library/Preferences I only found following references to iCal :
com.apple.iCal.AlarmScheduler.plist
com.apple.iCal.helper.plist
com.apple.iCal.plist
which i copied from the old to the new computer as well as the iCal folder in Application Support as suggested.
As already said without any success.
As far as Address Book is concerned only the same type of files, but related to AB, are located on both computers.
Am I missing something or should I look for other files elsewhere f.i. in the "Contents" folder of the application itself ???
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