Alarms not working going crazy

Hi All,
The alarms in iCal are not working AT ALL for me, no matter if iCal is open or not. I practically tried everything that was suggested in these forums. I usually setup alarms to pop-up a message and play a sound before an event. However, everything is silent for some reason. No pop-ups and no sounds even when iCal is open. Here is what I tried so far:
1) I deleted all iCal preferences from library/Preferences/ and restarted iCal.
2) I made sure that iCalAlarmScheduler is in the login items and that is is loaded.
3) Tried again with open iCal, but no luck again.
Just FYI, I am on a MacPro, with Mac OS X 10.4.9 and ALL the updates installed, running iCal 2.0.5 (1069).
I am SO frustrated!!! This seems to be a VERY common problem since iCal 1.5 and Apple obviously can't find a solution for it. Is it THAT hard Apple engineers?
Please help! I REALLY need these reminders. Without them I am lost. Thanks!

alexbet,
I am glad to hear that you resolved the problem.
You said: I really don't understand why it didn't work before and it did this time, but thank you for "making me" do it again.
Did you have iCal running when you previously tried the plist removal?
I suggested a specific order to ensure that you did not have iCal running when you removed the appropriate plist files. Plist removal is more often than not, unsuccessful if the application concerned is running or the application is restarted before a log out/in or system restart is accomplished.
;~)

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