Alerts on Calendar.

Every time I create a new event in Calendar on my mac it adds 3 alerts, the default, which in "none" and email for the 2nd and 3rd alerts, even though I have set the preferences to add none. Any ideas?
It's kind of anoying because I start getting emails for every event... and don't want that.
I tried to edit the event, "erase" the email option and change it to none.. .click done but when i go to the edit option again.... it's there again!
thanks for any help.
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Have you tried using iCal in another user space to see if it is a bad preferences file? You can move the preferences file for your user space by locating the file:
/Users/<your user name>/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iCal.plist
quit iCal and move it to the desktop.
Restart iCal to see if the problem is resolved. If it is not... try moving the following to the desktop:
/Users/<your user name>/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iCal.Alarm.plist
/Users/<your user name>/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iCal.Alarm.plist.lockfile
/Users/<your user name>/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iCal.helper.plist
/Users/<your user name>/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iCal.helper.plist.lockfile
/Users/<your user name>/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iCal.plist.lockfile
/Users/<your user name>/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iCalExternalSync.plist
Once you determine whether the problem resolves you can decide whether to mov any (or all) of these files back.

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Because the default sound "Basso" isn't the best alert sound for me I want to change the default sound of Calendar items in Mountain Lion.
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(Make TimeMachine backup)
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