ICal in Full Screen freezes

Hi,
iCal in Lion freezes all the time, but only in full screen. Does anyone know what to do about this?
Brandon

* Go to your Finder "Go" menu hold the option key to choose ~/Library
Go to Preferences/com.apple.iCal.plist and move this file along with all other ical plist files there to your Desktop, then log out and back in or restart.

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