Revert to prior program after an iCal event alert.

Is there a setting available for the iPod Touch to automatically revert back to the program being used before an interruption from an iCal event alert?

I have a Logitech app that turns my iPod Touch into a mouse for my G5. It is very nice. However if I get an alert from iCal and I need to go into iCal to reschedule I have to exit iCal then re-launch the Logitech app. I have not tried ignoring the alert yet. It would be preferable to enter iChat then get back to the Logitech app without having to re-launch it.
Thanks for your reply.

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Taking one for the team and on the phone with AppleCare right now. I'll try to take good enough notes to post back here. If nothing else, I'll see if I can post the support notes as documented by the rep as soon as it's published:
On the phone with second person who is taking notes before transfering me to a third. While I'm waiting, thought I'd share what the first person had me do.Note that this did NOT fix this or any of what I suspect are Finder issues but it can help with some system wide glitches. In any case, it can't hurt:
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Yes. I have ML 10.8.2 on a 2009 macbook pro. The Apple store genius was no help.
If I happen to be using my machine at the time, I'll see an alert in the upper right screen the correct amount of time before the item start. My choices are to close or snooze.
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.
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Reset PRAM. This is easy.
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When you sign back in to iCloud on the Mac the iCloud calendars should be there if they are also on the web-page iCloud calendar. Did you
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