Can iCal update while closed?

OK, here's my problem: When I enter an event on my iPhone or iPad or on me.com, it only shows up in iCal after I open iCal. In other words, if I associate an alert with an event on my phone, that alert will never go off on my Mac, unless I left iCal open or I happen to open it sometime before the event.
Now, I just spent some time on chat with Apple and was told that this is normal behavior, that iCal only updates from me.com when it's open. But Address Book updates just fine when closed. And I'm 99% sure that the me.com support guy was wrong, that iCal updates like Address Book. Or DID.
Has the behavior changed? Have I lost my mind and iCal never, ever updates when closed?
I'm willing to accept that I'm completely wrong about this, but I wanted to throw it out to the community and see if anyone else a) remembers the experience the way I do and/or b) knows of any workarounds/apps that will allow me to receive iCal alerts on my Mac without needing to leave iCal open all the time.
Thanks!

Under the old system, which used SyncServices as does Address Book, updates could take place even while iCal wasn't actually running.
With the new MobileMe calendar, because iCal isn't really syncing but is reading the calendar off the MobileMe server (much the same as webmail) updates can only take place while iCal is actually running. This means that if you add an event with an alarm on another device while iCal is not running, the event won't be added until iCal is opened and may well be missed.
In order to be sure you would need to run iCal but hide it, so that it won't be visible and in your way but can still update.

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