Can't see events from multiple months

Question

I use iCal to track staff's vacation/sick/etc. days. Each employee has his/her own calendar and all events listed on the calender relate to that person (i.e. on "Emily"'s calendar is emily OUT/emily SICK). Until recently, when I typed "Emily" in the search field, all events with that name (be it sick/out/review) came up in the results box. Now when I type "Emily," an event or two may pop up in the box, but I cannot even determine how it is selecting these dates as they are not specific to the calendar view on my screen.
Do you have advice on how I may view all events that have a specific name OR simply all events in an individual calendar in the search results box?
thanks!

Answer 1

Did you follow Dancin' Brook's reply about checking the appropriate calendar? If you do that then all you should see are all events for that calendar ... although they wouldn't appear in the search box.
Have you tried things like deleting iCal preferences (actually renaming them - as a test - rather than deleting them)?
I also note the follow info in iCal help ... perhaps it applies:
After updating to Mac OS X 10.4.2, you may not be able to find iCal 2.0.2 events that were created prior to updating when using the search function in iCal.
When you search for a particular event in iCal, iCal won't display the event in its search results, but you can find the event by browsing to the appropriate day in an iCal calendar or by using Spotlight.
Solution
From the iCal File menu, choose Backup Database.
Quit iCal.
Navigate to ~/Library/Application Support/iCal/Sources.
Open each folder in the Sources folder and remove the file named "Index."
Open iCal; it will re-index your events.