New iCal no longer syncs in the background?

Ever since I upgraded my iCal within MobileMe and iCal on Mac to that new CalDav thingy, iCal doesn't seem to sync in the background any more, like the old one did with the MobileMe sync throughout the day.
I have mine set to sync every hour but it doesn't seem to sync unless iCal is actually running on the Mac - if I launch it and it hasn't synced in an hour, it starts syncing, so it's not like I'm missing syncs, as long as I make sure to fire it up every now and then.
I used to have it set to "Push" sync, but that was annoying. Whenever I tried to create a new event, after writing a few words for the event, iCal would lose focus from it (due to the sync starting) and I'd have to double-click my event to bring up the box where I can edit event title again (to finish writing it). Frustrating.

The Calendar is no longer 'syncing' as such and nothing you do in System Preferences>MobileMe>Sync will have any effect. You should turn Calendar syncing off there (the other data continues to be synced as before).
The Calendar now lives on the MobileMe Server and iCal reads it from there when opened (like webmail) - it does maintain a cached copy (unless you turn that off) so that you still have a calendar when offline. Changes won't appear until iCal is running. If it's left running and you make changes elsewhere they should appear pretty quickly.
I don't know why you're having the focus problem. I double-click in a day (when in month view) to open the pane for a new event, type the event title and make any necessary settings: I then click 'done' and immediately see the syncing icon appear. I do have the calendars set to Push. You can set the sync to various delays if you want, but as you've found iCal does have to be running.
You don't say whether you are also using iOS4 devices: someone posted that his iPad only picked up changes when the Calendar was first opened, and not subsequent one while the calendar was still running - he had to close it and open it again. I don't know whether this is expected behaviour or whether he has got some setting incorrect (I don't have an iPad or iPhone to check).

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