Calendar alarms go off late?

I have calendar events syncing well with MobileMe between 3 devices: desktop Mac, MacBook, and iPhone 3G. The problem is, on the desktop only, alarms always go off late, anywhere from 5 to 30+ minutes. The delay seems to vary. The desktop's clock and timezone are correct, as they are set to auto update. This problem occurred right after I bought this new machine.
For example, I had an 11:30 event with alert set to 30 mins before, and at 11:00 sharp, both the MacBook and iPhone alarms went off. But it wasn't until 11:07 before the desktop alarm went off.
Any suggestions? Thanks.

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Message Edited by chiroman73 on 06-23-2009 09:31 PM

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