RANDOM e-mail alarms in ical

I have a recent problem with ical sending me alarms at odd times. I received 14 e-mail alrams today alone, all for events that were last year. All of these events had one week reminder alarms scheduled back when they were pertinent, but none of them are in as recurring events, so I am receiving a "reminder" about an event that happened last year! This problem started after Leopard upgrade, but has seemingly gotten worse. I do sync with an ibook that is still running Tiger, but have checked the events on that machine too and none of them have alarms scheduled.

I am updating/following up on my previous post. I have deleted the plist file as suggested and after a few restarts the machine is still sending all of my previous/old email reminders.
Edzso - I have set up reminders for my friends' birthdays so they are in fact recurring. I can remove the reminder by changing it back to None, but that really doesn't "solve" the problem...that's working around it. I'm not attacking you personally by saying that, I'm just pointing out that this problem really still exists after upgrading to Leopard. I also don't have any Automator scripts that I use at all...but good thinking on that one!
I haven't installed the iPhone SDK kit, so I cannot speak to what another post has stated.
I have also tried to go into my iCal preferences and delete all events older than "x" days and I set that to 15 days. iCal doesn't end up purging any of the previous events...it's as if they're locked in there unless I physically go through and delete all of them manually. The time invested to fix that would be insane.
If anyone has any other thoughts it would be greatly appreciated...but the further I dig, the further I see this is something that is not independent on my machine...but it rather an issue people are having after installing Leopard.

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