Email alarm problems

Hi, today all of a sudden, when using ical and I choose to email myself as an alarm I receive the following message "You must add your own card and email address in Address Book in order to be able to use mail alarms." It then makes me open up my address book, where of course I DO FIND my card. And there seems to be no way to "link" it to the Calendar program. Thoughts?

Gxr,
so: how do I reset my "me" card?
(Address Book>Card>Make This My Card)
If the card with your name is already designated, the (Address Book>Card>Make This My Card) will be grayed out. If that is the case, just recreate your card and use the (Address Book>Card>Make This My Card) selection from the Address Book menu.
;~)

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If iCal.app is closed, my email event alarms are working fine.
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The only other reference I could find in the forums to a similar problem was a claim that installing GroupWise can interfere with the script that iCal uses to fill in the To: field on the email, but I have never installed Groupwise (at least i dont remember ever installing it, and can't find any traces of Groupwise on my system), and the fact that it all works when iCal is closed , but not when iCal is open, has me stumped.
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Hi Ian,
There is a different application that sends the emails when iCal is closed. It is called iCal Helper and is contained in the iCal application. iCal and iCal Helper use copies of the same Applescripts to send the emails to Mail.app. Your problem could stem from the Applescripts in iCal being corrupted in some way.
Before trying what I am about to suggest, make an archive of your iCal application (Control-Click it in Finder and select Create Archive of "iCal") and keep the iCal.zip file safe. Better safe than sorry.
You could try copying the Applescripts from the iCal Helper package into the iCal package.
To do this:
1. Control-Click on the iCal application and choose 'Show Package Contents' from the contextual menu. A new window will open with one folder called Contents in it.
2.Open Contents and then the folder inside called Resources.
3. In Resources you will find the iCal Helper application (you may find this easier using column view). Control-Click iCal Helper and select 'Show Package Contents'. Another window will open with a folder called Contents in it.
4. Move the windows so you can see both the Resources window and the window opened in the last step.
5. Open the Contents folder, and then the Resources folder inside this.
6. Inside iCal Helper's Resources folder you will find five files called: Mail.scpt, Mail.applescript, mailInfoScript.applescript, mailInfoScript.applescript, mailScript.applescript and mailScriptWithAttachment.applescript. These files should be copied into iCal's Resources folder.
7. Select the five files and press Command-C to copy them.
8. Select the iCal's Resources folder in the other window and press Command-V. You will see a confirmation window asking if you really want to repace the files.
9. Close both windows and your done.
If you have any problems revet to the zipped copy of iCal.
An alternative to this would be to do a custom install of iCal from your installation disk and applying the combo update to 10.4.7.
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John M

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