My iCal is getting quirky

My iCal has really been misbehaving lately. Last week it the pop-up asking if I wanted to make a change to a recurring event for just this one or all future events has failed to pop up after a change (and the future events did not change). This happened several times (but it worked fine sometimes).
And now I have found that 2 recurring events (annual) in April don't show the [EDIT] button when I double-click on them, or right-click and pick Get info. They only shows the [DONE] button. This only happens on 2 events in the month, all the other 26 events work fine and both the edit and done buttons show. I just checked my permissions this morning and they were fine. What's wrong??
All my software is up to date and I just ran the new firmware update this morning. I've never seen either of these problems before.

Still does not work. if I add something to my laptop it shows up maybe hour or so later on my cell if at all. I have everything set up properly.
I hate to say it but it looks to me as all they did was change the .mac logo to a .me and otherwise whats the difference?
Doe sit instantly push for you to your cell? I bet not

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