ICal Questions

Dear Guys,
I have upgraded to Mountain Lion a week ago.   iCal has been so far a pain in the butt.
1.   I have set iCal to open an excel file for me every morning so that I can record my blood pressure. It opens the first day, but never opens in the following days.
2.   The new iCal reminder does not allow me to SNOOZE for a specific time.
3.   When I set a new iCal event, e.g., if I type "8/10/2012; 10:00PM; Lunch with Boss", the first part "8/10/2012; 10:00PM" will be gone.   I need to retype the thing again, then, it stays.
All the above three things never happened to me before the upgrade.
Any idea?
Jimmy

As long as we're addressing the woes of the 'new' iCal, I'd been using the app to launch Pandora (in Safari) as an alarm in the morning. Here's something I've found, which may or may not apply to your difficulties: iCal insists on displaying a desktop alert at the alarm time, and this seems to interfere with the requested alert of opening Pandora. I can't find a way to prevent the desktop alert from coming up. If I MOVE the time of the alarm manually (after it's been blocked by the desktop alert), it opens fine. The question is this: how do I stop iCal from providing the desktop alert? Nothing in Preferences seems to apply.

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