Why do I find it so difficult to enter dates in iCal?

I'm hoping I'm doing something wrong here, but I find entering/changing dates on events or todos infuriating in iCal (and in Leopard Mail for todos). I'm relatively new to Macs so I'm hoping this is just because I don't quite understand the Mac way of doing things yet.
The problem is particularly related to todos. For example, say I have iCal open on todays date in day view, but I want to enter a todo with a due date in 1 weeks time. I hit Command-K to start a new todo, enter a name, then double-click it to open up the properties. Click the due date check box and now I have to go back to my keyboard to type in the date or use arrow keys to increase/decrease the date - is there no way to pick a date with the mouse?
Thanks for any help.
Joe

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