All events disappeared and iCal won't quit

Ok, I'm stumped.
I'm not sure if this started when I did the 10.5.5 upgrade or when I had a power-hit crash in the same time frame, but iCal seems pretty much dead. When I launch it, I see none of my events or groups - just a blank calendar. When I try to quit, the "iCal" menu shows blue but nothing happens. I can force quit but get the same results upon restarting iCal.
So, I have good backups and restored my user Library/Calendar and Library/Application Support/iCal folders. No change. Tried tossing the prefs and the Cache files per some other threads I've seen here - no change. Finally got out Pacifist and reinstalled iCal from my Leopard disk (which caused a number of other problems but sorted them out by reinstalling 10.5.5 update). iCal however, is still doing the same thing.
Anyone have suggestions for what I might try next?

Do the combo update for 10.5.5. For some reason, a number of us had the same problem when 10.5.5 update was first available. Even though I had 10.5.4 on my computer, ical worked (not) just like yours. Redoing the update as the combo one seemed to solve the problem.
Look for the thread ical hosed with 10.5.5.

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