Can't open ical preferences

Hello!
I recently had the harddrive problems where I got the gray screen of death. Went in to the Apple store, got it fixed. Now, my ical is empty. I tried to go to iCal preferences to set up all my google calendars but the iCal preferences will not open or appear. Any suggestions?

Greetings Nikki,
Make sure your system is fully up to date with all software updates (Apple > Software Update).
Go to Apple Menu > System Preferences > Language & Text > Formats > Region. Region should be set to the country of your choice. Do not have it set to "Custom" as this can have unexpected results in iCal.
If that does not help:
1. First make an iCal backup: Click on each calendar on the left hand side of iCal 1 at a time highlighting it's name and then going to File Export > Export and saving the resulting calendar file to a logical location for safekeeping.
2. Remove the following to the trash and restart your computer:
Home > Library > Caches > com.apple.ical
Home > Library > Preferences > com.apple.ical (There may be more than one of these. Remove them all.)
---NOTE: Removing these files may remove any shared (CalDAV) calendars you may have access to. You will have to re-add those calendars to iCal > Preferences > Accounts.
3. Launch iCal and test.
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