ICal doesn't execute Automator Scripts

Since I upgraded to Leopard my iCal doesn't execute scripts anymore. Normaly every day iCal executed a script to check for birthdays and send them a e-mail. Now I can't get this to work. No settings are changed as far I can see.
Help!!! (I missed already a few birthdays... people hate me... ;-))

Does it display any kind of error message? It may be that the location of the script has changed. It seems that iCal saves fixed paths to scripts and not aliases. This means that if the path to a script changes it won't run. Try to rename a script and then select it again in the event. You'll want to rename so that you can distinguish it from the previous script entry. iCal only displays the name of the script, not the path used by the alarm.

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