Help! iCal randomly rearranging To Do's!

I just upgraded to Leopard last week, and ever since, iCal has been randomly rearranging my To Do's, even though I have the To Do panel set to "sort manually". I've sat here and watched iCal, and every five minutes or so, one of my To Do's will randomly change it's location in the list. There's no rhyme or reason to it either; they don't seem to be in order of calendar, priority, or due date. Anyone know what to do? This is really freaking annoying!

I think it's 2 separate issues. In Tiger's iCal, I had the problem where it would not print out the to-dos in the correct order, even though it displayed them on the screen correctly.
In Leopard, it does neither correctly for me. Even though I have it set to sort manually, it often rearranges to-dos before my very eyes, and there's nothing I can do to stop it from rearranging them. The moving of the to-dos is very smooth graphically, but very annoying since they are not supposed to be moving if it is set to sort manually. I've tried changing the setting back and forth to no avail. While iCal has other improvements in Leopard, this problem has been persistently annoying.
Any help would be appreciated.
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