ICal double click bug?

First, I hope I'm in the correct section to ask an iCal question
I know this is a picky one, but this drives my partner crazy:
intro: to switch from one program to the other, I click anywhere on the other program's window to activate/focus on the second program, right?
dilemma: I'm in e.g. Mail ... I want to create an iCal event for next week (I'm in week view) ... I click twice on the "next" arrow at the top of the iCal window (once to activate iCal, and a second time to advance the view to the following week) ... *what happens though is, the view jumps two weeks* ... because of this, my partner has missed three appointments by now, because they were scheduled the week after they actually took place.
I know, there are a number of ways to avoid this (the first click should not be on the arrow, check to make sure I'm on the right date etc) but, hey, she is an A-personality and want's to know whether this is a Finder/iCal bug or a function she doesn't understand or a setting that can be changed.
Thank you.

That is what is called click-through, and is intended behavior. Try this: move Safari into the background, then click on one of the buttons. Especially interesting, try command-clicking on a bookmark bar item... the bookmark will load in a new tab, but Safari will *remain in the background* so you can continue doing whatever you were doing while waiting for the page to finish loading. (Note that it's not the command key that does this -- that just tells Safari to load in a new tab. It's just how click-through works. Since you loaded in a separate tab without making that the active tab, it is evident you did not want to immediately visit the page, and Safari remains in the background.)
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