Must user be logged in for an iCal event to trigger?

I wrote a simple apple script to record an internet radio show that I didn't want to miss. I set up an iCal alarm to run this script. That worked.
I logged out of the account and into a different one. At the next alarm time, this script didn't run.
Does the user need to be logged in for an alarm to trigger? Do I need to resort to cron instead?

Greetings,
iCal like Mail, iChat, iPhoto, iDVD, etc etc etc all run as a user specific instance. The applications only run when the user account is open.
If you know how to write systemwide cron jobs that would be an alternative.

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In the prior os, I could select from a number of snooze options and be reminded indefinitely. Now snooze will remind by default in 15 minutes even if the item starts the next day. Repeatedly snoozing in 15 minute intervals is dumb. Plus, if my machine is asleep, the alert will disappear at some point anyway.
If I do nothing, the alert counts down to the start time, displays 'now', and then disappears from the screen and notifications at the end time. Yet system preferences says notification alerts stay on the screen until dismissed. So even when my machine is awake, alerts still aren't persistent. Maybe it's a power nap and app issue as well? I sure won't regress os-wise. It took me weeks to recover from the last upgrade and compile a list of everytihing that went south.
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hi forum.
We created 5 applications based on same schema and all in one workspace now. Actually, initially they were created on different machines. now, we have to authenticate users from AD and depending on user type, have to allow or deny some modules. i have created one pager application which have 5 buttons and can control rendering of buttons according to user logged in but...the problem is, inside the applications, i have restrictions on some reports for some users...now one way was to do that is to create a log in for every application separately and thus every application would exactly know who is logged in. but that would be impractical as we need single-sign-on kind of functionality.
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