ICal reminders bug

I am posting this in case it is of help to anyone or in case anyone knows of a fix. I have discovered what I think is a bug in iCal on Lion which prevents reminders showing on their due date. Steps to re-create are as follows:
1. Create a reminder (not an event) with a due date of today.
2. Go to iCal Preferences / Advanced and select 'Hide reminders that are due after dates visible in the calendar'.
3. In iCal select 'Day' view.
4. Select 'Today' to show today's appointments and reminders.
Notice the reminder you created is not visible.
5. Select tomorrow's date from the date picker or the advance arrow.
Notice the reminder with a due date of today is now visible.
This does not happen if the calendar application is used on iCloud itself so I am deducing that this is a bug in iCal on Lion.
Has any anyone come across this who has a fix?

andylel,
Yes, I've notice exactly the same behavior.
Addionally, if you have an iOS 5 device and an iCloud account, the item in the Reminders app will be listed as an "All Day" task. In that item's list the item will have no time associated with it. It's definitely a bug in iCal. The bug also affects third part apps that sync with iCloud, such as BusyCal and BusyTodo.
Regards,
Bud

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