Can't get rid of blank iCal Alarm window

Several days ago my MacBook pro running 10.5.8 mysteriously reset its calendar to 2000. When I reset it in Preferences/Date and Time everything was fine with the exception of an ICal blank message pane/window that keeps appearing after every sleep and start-up--the beach ball twirls for about five minutes during which everything freezes or runs super slow.  I found some online conversation dating to 2009 about ways to fix this, but none of them worked for me. I tried trashing the iCal App which did not work nor did running a FixToDo dmg script someone suggested. I never use iCal and would have no problem deleting the whole program if I could.  All help gratefully received.  Thanks v much.

Great news!
That is the first thing that I think about, when there is some hang in the GUI.
Next, launching PrE and IMMEDIATELY holding down Ctrl+Shift+Alt (not sure that all are required, but that works for PS and PrPro), until the program launches, and then accepting the Reset of Preferences.
Third, would be to look at the video driver, and compare that with the very latest on the nVidia, or ATI/AMD Web site, and install the latest.
Glad that it cleared things for you, and good luck,
Hunt

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