Changing iCal alert sounds

I set a sound to use in Mail (user/library/sounds) and it keeps popping up/on with my iCal alerts. How do I set the alert to NOT use that sound in iCal?
running iCal 2.1.
thanks

Oh, ok.  Then search around macupdate to see if you can find a utility that assigns sounds to sytem events.  Such things have been around since OS9 so there must be one or more for OSX.  Whether they are Lion compatible is another story.
As for the beep sound when you change the volume, I never heard anyone complain about  that   The general user-level answer is no you cannot change that.  The hacker answer is, it's your machine you can hack it any way you please.  Hint, it's a aiff sound file buried in the system somewhere and referenced by the sound preferences.  But if you change it (a) it is not clear who else might be using it since it is not in the sound preferences itself and (b) it will only be clobbered when some future apple update comes along to update the code containing that aiff.  So bottom line, forget about it.
[I know where it is -- I looked out of curiosity as a result of your post -- but I'll refrain from posting its location on these forums.]

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