ICal won't let me export

I have a Mac Book Pro and a Mac Pro, each running OS X 10.4.9 and iCal 2.0.5. I synch iCal between computers using my .Mac account.
I have finally decided to abandon iCal and return to Now Up-to-Date, as iCal is unstable, won't reliably process meeting invitations, frequently hangs and is very feature limited.
But when I go to export the iCal calendar entries so that I can get them into NUTD, the export dialog box/window opens and immediately closes before I can specifiy a filename or location or click on the 'export' button. This is on BOTH machines. Conseqently, I cannot export.
Has anyone else seen this or have any ideas what s going on? A search of this forum found no other reference to the issue.

Clearly iCal is not operating properly in your configuration. If you want it to, it may require that you reinstall the application from your original Mac OS X 10.4 or later Install or Upgrade DVD, and that you apply the Mac OS X 10.4.9 Combo update for intel processor-based machines, available here:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosx1049comboupdateintel.html
You might also want to consider doing this differently. Instead of exporting iCal data into a file for import into Now-Up-To-Date, instead consider waiting for the release of NightHawk, the NUTD successor, to read your iCal data directly into. It's release is only likely several weeks away, and I believe that a public beta release is already available.
You can learn more about NightHawk on this Google Group list:
http://groups.google.com/group/macintosh_pims?lnk=gschg

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