ICal quits on startup - nothing works

Question

hello, all -
iCal is crashing on startup, and I can't get it to work. I've tried everything I can find on the posts here - including everything commented on in this post: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1011601&start=0&tstart=0 - and nothing works.
Any suggestions?
thanks.

Answer 1

Same. I can't get iCal to start. I've deleted Prefs and cleared my iSync history, etc. Nothing is working. Here's what I get:
$ /Applications/iCal.app/Contents/MacOS/iCal
2007-09-20 00:35:15.523 iCal[559] unable to find Helvetica Neue font, using helvetica instead
2007-09-20 00:35:15.529 iCal[559] unable to find Helvetica Neue font, using helvetica instead
CGImageDestinationCreate capacity parameter is zero
2007-09-20 00:35:15.637 iCal[559] Could not create CGImageDestinationRef for output type 'public.tiff'
CGImageSourceCreateWithData data parameter is nil
CGImageDestinationCreate capacity parameter is zero
2007-09-20 00:35:15.638 iCal[559] Could not create CGImageDestinationRef for output type 'public.tiff'
CGImageSourceCreateWithData data parameter is nil
2007-09-20 00:35:15.648 iCal[559] Can't get image named chkbxCheck
2007-09-20 00:35:15.655 iCal[559] Can't get image named chkbxCheck
CGImageDestinationCreate capacity parameter is zero
2007-09-20 00:35:15.656 iCal[559] Could not create CGImageDestinationRef for output type 'public.tiff'
CGImageSourceCreateWithData data parameter is nil
CGImageDestinationCreate capacity parameter is zero
2007-09-20 00:35:15.656 iCal[559] Could not create CGImageDestinationRef for output type 'public.tiff'
CGImageSourceCreateWithData data parameter is nil
2007-09-20 00:35:15.691 iCal[559] An uncaught exception was raised
2007-09-20 00:35:15.691 iCal[559] * -[NSCFArray addObject:]: attempt to insert nil
2007-09-20 00:35:15.691 iCal[559] * Uncaught exception: <NSInvalidArgumentException> * -[NSCFArray addObject:]: attempt to insert nil
Trace/BPT trap
not sure what the nil could be.. maybe a bad font, character code corruption, etc.