ICal applescript: get current event?

I am trying to use Applescript alarms from iCal to do a couple things: first, I want it to set my away message in iChat to the event that called the alarm, and second, I was to be able to send an e-mail (really a text message) containing the event. I would settle for just being able to get the closest event to "now", but that is the last resort. Is there any way to get the ID of the event that called the applescript in the first place? Barring that, how can I get the closest event to "now"? The code I have seems to miss recurring events (I am comparing start time to now, but start time on recurring events was the first occurrence).

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Greetings,
What do you mean by "events to update"? Do you mean invites to new events or changes to existing invites?
Troubleshooting:
1. Your profile indicates you are running 10.6.7, 10.6.8 is the current version Apple > Software update.
2. First make an iCal backup: Click on each calendar on the left hand side of iCal 1 at a time highlighting it's name and then going to File Export > Export and saving the resulting calendar file to a logical location for safekeeping.
3. Remove the following to the trash and restart your computer:
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Home > Library > Preferences > com.apple.ical (There may be more than one of these. Remove them all.)
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3. Launch iCal and test.
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Apparently, it works even faster if executed from iCal (as opposed to running with the events tab closed).
There were a couple of minor bug fixes, but I've tested it on a fake repeated event, and will see if it really works tomorrow.
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set myPlace to location of event j of calendar i
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exit repeat
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try
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try
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on error
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set endMonth to items 5 thru 6 of endDate as string
set endDay to items 7 thru 8 of endDate as string
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set endMonth to endMonth as number
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set endMonth to (month of endDate) as number
set endDay to (day of endDate) as number
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log recDays
try
repeat with i from 12 to length of str
if word i of str is in dayList then
set recDays to recDays & word i of str
else
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
return recDays
on error
return recDays
end try
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