ICal opens on the dock, but no window appears

For the last few days my iCal (which is in the start-up disk) will bounce on the dock but then no window appears. The icon stops bouncing, but when it finishes, all that appears is the date but it is clear, there is no calander picture in the background. The only way to quit iCal is to force quit. When I click on the icon on the dock, no window appears and iCal's menu does not appear on the top bar like in other apps. Every now and then my isync tries to sync my iCal with my .mac account, but it comes up with the following message
|(null)| iCal application is not available for sync. Please quit iCal.
Can't synchronize calendars and To Do items to iCal: device is not available
I have tried to run Virex several times but no viruses have come up. any suggestions?
eMac G4   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

Does running Firefox in Safe mode help?
Did you at least try to disable hardware acceleration if it works in safe-mode?
Such a test only takes a short time and can easily be undone.<br />
Testing for misbehaving extensions takes a lot more time with all the restart involved.
If you have many extensions then first enable half of the extensions to test which half has the problem.<br />
Continue to divide the bad half that still has the issue until you find which one is causing it.
We only can do some guesses if you post a list of your installed extensions and themes.

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