ICal 3.0.6: all events gone, cannot add new events either, needs force quit

Hello,
I am experiencing the same behaviour seen by others on the list. It probably occured due to the OSX upgrade to 10.5.6. I hadn't used iCal much since Dec 10 or so and only noticed the anomalous behaviour yesterday.
What I see:
- iCal comes up but all previous events are no longer in it
- The default Home and Work calendars are also gone
- The left bottom section of iCal shows January 2001 and the forward/back buttons do not work in the this subwindow
- I cannot add any new events
- I can only close iCal by using force quit
My events and calendars files are still available in the ~\Library\Calendars folder but I cannot import them into iCal. File->Import->Import an iCal file does not work (a finder like window does not appear to allow me to choose a file).
I have tried the following:
- moving com.apple.iCal.plist to the desktop and login/logout
- moving Calendar Cache to the desktop and login/logout
- login using another account and tried to use iCal. no go.
I haven't tried to install an older version of iCal from the OSX DVD yet.
Any ideas?

I am having the same behavior. In the past with many major OSX upgrades this has happened and I had to get a previous copy from Time Machine. Right now my Time Machine copy is dead and I can't do it. I tried getting an older copy of iCal but it is exhibiting the same behavior!! I can't synch the calendar with my iPhone, either! No, I do not want to reinstall Leopard from scratch on this machine just to replace iCal - that is ABSURD!! This is the 3rd or 4th time this has happened. I don't have 4 - 6 hours of my time to fix this kind of problem every couple of months - not to mention several spare hard drives, etc.
What is causing this problem, and how can we get iCal back??
How about a simple iCal reinstall utility page on the Apple Web site if this is going to keep happening??

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