Ical widget launch ical

This is more of an annoyance than a serious question, still help would be appreciated. I seem to remember having the ability to use the iCal widget that came with Snow Leopard to open iCal to a specific date. To do this, all I had to do was go to that widget in my Dashboard, double-click on the date I was interested on and voila! iCal launched with that specific date open. Not any more. Now the widget appears as a single square containing today's date first, which you can expand once, by double clicking, to get the full month, which you can adjust using the arrows, and then double click again to get a list of today's events. You can also click on one of those events and that will launch iCal. Still, I miss being able to be more specific in which day I wanted to open iCal in. Did the features of the widget change or is mine just malfunctioning? Let me know what you think. Thank you!
On a side note, it will be interesting to see what happens to Dashboard and widgets when Lion (Mac OS X 10.7) is launched.

I'm suddenly facing a similar and unexpected terror as mentioned above - at least I have some skill to keep finding the right people on the right threads, and most of all thanks for taking the time to participate. I found a helpful response over here:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=5551095#5551095
w/ the topic," ical synchronizing your modifications... "
Here's some point's regarding my slice of horror, fyi. I kid you not I was going to buy an iphone tomorrow. I am spooked.
On the 5th, the synced ical calendars and address books simply vanished from my connected ipod classic. Today, itunes attempted to update the ipod software to 1.0.2 and iCal never fully launched itself again. (Perhaps related - or not? - In iphoto, in order to access its preferences there's a (15-25 minute wait. And I tried deleting the several different applications' preferences, etc.) And now not even a folder titled "Calendars" exists on my hard drive. (At least I've got my palm pilot which remarkably has the calendars. From here....?)
Any further thoughts or tips would be more than welcome if they come to you at your convenience.
Hope we all come out of this together.

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