Help me with birthdays in iCal

I have not used iCal very much because I have been using a Treo calendar. I bought an iPhone this week and want to start using iCal for all of my schedules, appointments and birthdays. I understand a little about how iCal works.
Here is what is bothering me:
• When I record the birthdays in my address book they are shown in iCal, that is great. However, when I double click on the birthday it doesn't give many options as to how to make it alert me. I would like to have it alert me with a sound the day before the BD. Also on the BD with a sound and at a time that I set.
• This can be done using the "Home" calendar, it seems, but it does not get automatically posted in iCal from the address book.
* Or it appears that I could go thru the iCal and make an alert on the day before each BD in the Home calendar, but then that is a double entry.
• Do you have any suggestions.

Hi,
See my post about Dates to iCal 2 here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7455084&#7455084
Best wishes
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