Import To Dos from Palm to iCal

I am switching to a new phone/pda that does not sync with Palm but does with iCal and Address Book. However, I am unable to import my To Do list into iCal. When I try to Export To Dos my only options are as Palm files or Tab & Return. It seems to me that I had once played around with iCal ( just out of curiosity) and that I was able to Import the To Dos with no problem.
What am I missing? Thanks.

Welcome to Apple Discussions.
I'm afraid that you're stuck. The Palm Desktop has no provision to export task data in any form which can be imported into iCal: it provides only for export as a Palm Desktop file, or a tab-delimited file.
iCal can import only iCal files, vCal files (like those the Palm Desktop can export for event data) and Entourage files.

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