Changing dates in iCal

Got a 21.5" iMac running Snow Leopard (10.6.5). For some reason, in iCal and Address Book, I am not able to change dates. When editing a record, I am able to select and modify the field for the month and the year, but not the date. The date is set at "05" and cannot be changed. That is, I cannot -- with either the mouse or by using the keyboard to TAB over -- select the field that changes the date. This applies to the date of the date of the event, the date the event should end (for a repeating event) in iCal and for birthdays in Address Book. Can anybody tell me why this might be so and how I might fix it?

Thanks in advance for your help.

You mean the "From" and "To" lines after you've gotten into the Edit window?

If so, can't say why. Fix it? Maybe a "rebuilt" iCal plist file??

toMACsh said:

You mean the "From" and "To" lines after you've gotten into the Edit window?

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In the "From" and "To" lines in the edit window, yes.

toMACsh said:

Fix it? Maybe a "rebuilt" iCal plist file??

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How exactly do I do that?

Drag com.apple.iCal.plist from <your user directory>/Library/Preferences/ to the desktop (or anywhere outside of that directory) and restart iCal. This will force iCal to generate a new preference file.

vansmith said:

Drag com.apple.iCal.plist from <your user directory>/Library/Preferences/ to the desktop (or anywhere outside of that directory) and restart iCal. This will force iCal to generate a new preference file.

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Well, sounded like a good idea. Thanks for the help. Unfortunately, it didn't work. Any other ideas?

Sure. Log in under a different user account. Then test iCal.

Always try the easy things first!

I think I figured it out. Playing around with other things, I realised the problem was not isolated to iCal and Address Book. It had to do with my Date and Time settings. Hope everything is working now.

Just wanted to let vansmith and toMACsh that the problem appears to be fixed and to thank them for their help.

Good. Glad you got it resolved.