Can't search for events in iCal

I always thought that I could search for an event in iCal by typing a text into the Search space and then would get a list of all events with that text; at least that's what I think did happen in the past.
If I do that now, no matter which text I type I do get a table with Date, Type, and Title below the calendarr, but with no events listed in it. ??? Did I inadvertently change some settings which prevent events to be listed?
Any advice would be highly appreciated.
Cheers,
Veit

Are you saying that the search in iCal (Leopard) will only work when Spotlight has indexed your computer and the iCal events box is checked? That means that iCal is not searching independently of Spotlight, but really it is using the "Spotlight" index/database?
Was this true in TIGER? - I just started my PBG4 which is TIGER and the seach is quick - includes everything if nothing requested. OK it has SpotLight, too-- if I UNtick Events & To Do items in TIGER will I then have no search ability in iCal??? (I guess I could try that and the re-tick it later??)
My MB with Leopard is actually updating right now, and says it has 5 hours left - since I added my HD to the list then removed it (to get it to generate a new index). So in 5 hours I can re-test to see if iCal can search (and find something!) --in Leopard.
Would be great to have a true LIST along with the DAY-WEEK-MONTH tabs in iCal-- we have that with my iPod Touch-- OK it's LIST - DAY - MONTH on the iPod - no "week" but I prefer that to what I have now on the iCal 3.0.6 (Leopard).
Comments welcome - and my little ALARM icon/notifier on the event itself is GONE in iCal Leopard- used to like that in 2.0.5 - could see which events had alarms and see if I'd forgotten to set one. How to get THAT back???
Best regards,
Steve Schulte
Wednesday 11 March 2009 at 14:17

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