ICal date bug...

My ical has started to show some weird dates..
an appt i have on the 8/5/06 shows like this
from 08G05G06 at 215pm
to 08G05G06 at 215pm
This is now applicable on every apptmoint since i started using iCal, circa 2003
Anyone got any suggestions - I am using an Intel MacBook Pro 2.16Ghz.
Thanks
Jeloz

jeloz,
Next, I would recommend that you check out Font Management in Mac OS X Tiger and Panther, by Kurt Lang. Pay particular attention to this paragraph: For garbled text, the most common cause is corrupt font caches. These can easily be cleared from the system with Font Finagler. Download and run the application. First click the "Inspect Font Cache Files" button, then the "Clean Font Cache Files" button. You must then restart your Mac. Other utilities that can clear your font caches are Cocktail and OnyX. These last two are powerful utilities which can do far more than just cleaning font caches. If you are not familiar with these applications, then I would caution you in their use as you could cause your Mac to become non functional, requiring a reinstall of the OS. Font Finagler is the safer choice as it performs only the one function.;~)

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