Is there a way to expand the editing bubble in iCal 3?

I can't figure out how to expand the size of the notes field in the iCal 3.0.3 editing bubble. Is it possible to expand it? You can expand the size of a text area in Safari, but you can't expand the notes field in iCal?!!! Even more frustrating is that when you add more text than can be viewed at once in the notes field, it doesn't scroll to the next line so you can see what you're typing -- you have to scroll manually after each line is entered. What's up with that?!!! I haven't upgraded to 10.5.4 yet -- does that fix any of this?
I'm very, very frustrated with iCal in Leopard. I want the drawer back -- or at least some more reasonable way of editing events.

Hi Patrick,
I'm working on a 30" monitor, so it's effectively 2560x1600.  It only seems to be showing 2 tracks at a time, unless there is a preference or setting I'm missing that I can't seem to find in the documentation.  Here is a screenshot:
I don't see any areas for expanding the timeline.  I can scroll vertically in the timeline, but I can't seem to actually get a larger static vertical area for showing more tracks at once.  The only vertical resizing widget is to expand the bottom or top panels, not the timeline.
Thanks,
Jason

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