Invisible iCal in dock

3 problems with iCal:
1)I recently reinstalled OS Leopard because my HDD was acting strangely. I replaced it with a new one & all the reinstall seems to be working well. BUT the icon for iCal, in the dock, has an invisible background(the red & white pad with the rings) until it is opened—then everything seems normal. However, before clicking on the icon(opening iCal), only the month & date are present as expected.
2)Also! When the program first opens, with all of the calendars checked, there are no events shown. However, when I uncheck any one of them, the events appear! And when I re-check the unchecked one these events also appear(as expected).
3)Double-clicking an event or creating a new event opens the window as expected but the colors of the window seem to be reversed! — The background for all event pull up menus is black with navy blue titles & dim white clickables—barely legible.
Help!

See this:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3121153?start=0&tstart=0
It appears the answer to your question is 'Yes', the ghost icon has been seen before. No answer as to cause but fix is to remove from dock, go to Applications and drag the application icon back to the dock.
Hope this fixes it for you.

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