Ical Month View doesn't work

Okay, this just started happening to me randomly about 2 weeks after I got my macbook. Ical can no longer be viewed in month view. Furthermore, in either week view or day view, the page on the right that lets you set specific date/time as well as priority, alarms and notes and such, no long exists either. iCal starts, however nothing shows up as it starts in month view. When I click view>week view, that shows up fine (but still without the editor pane as I described above), but as soon as I click on month view, everything disappears. Please Advise
Macbook Pro 17 Mac OS X (10.4.8) Boot Camp Installed

Hi,
This is a problem with your iCal's preferences.
The easiest way to deal with it is to close iCal, go to your users Library > Preferences, find the file 'com.apple.iCal.plist' and delete it. When you re-open iCal the window positions will revert to deafult. Open iCal's preference window and make sure all your settings are how you want aftter this.
John M

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