ICal freezes and dies when I try to open it

Hi,
since a few days now i can't open my iCal and it is slowly driving me nuts...right now i am back to the "old days" before iSync, manually plotting in all my events into my mobilephone.
When i open the application it looks just fine. I can see the colours of my calenders in the upper left corner (but not the text).
But then nothing more happens, after a while i get the SWOD and then i have to force quit. (before i get the swod the application is active, i can add events etc)
I also can't see any of the events i had in iCal - which is terrifying!!!
Does anyone have a clue what it could be?
Thanx

I finally found something that worked for me!
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3076133#3076133

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