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ICal invitiation randomly enters characters?

When iCal is open, i can add a new entry fine, but then when i go to add invites to that entry, no matter what letters i type in, it randomly changes.
E.g If i try typing Hillary, the H sometimes goes in then when i get to the I, the word will change to BO or EX, and randomly changes each time, with no pattern what so ever.
this problem has been here since i have owned the laptop and last resort would be to reinstall Snow Leopard, but surely there should be an easier way?

nxnw

Odd, flaky behaviour is sometimes due to corrupt caches. Download Onyx (http://www.titanium.free.fr/download.php - get the right version for Snow Leopard) and use it to delete your caches. It wouldn't hurt to also repair permissions.

If the problem persists, try setting up a fresh user account on your mac (in system preferences-accounts) and see if iCal does the same thing in the new account.

Finally, is there an OS X Server in your environment?

blueboxit

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I have downloaded the software but this didnt resolve the issue.
Then created a new account and added some new contacts to the address book. when i tested this in iCal this worked without any issues.
I am going to try and import the original Address book into the new test account to see if this recreates the problem. if so, i will then need to find a way of repairing or recreating my address book.

nxnw

Did you delete your caches and repair permissions? Is there an OS X Server in your environment?

blueboxit

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Yes the caches were deleted and the permissions were repaired - there is a OSX server (10.5) in the enviroment however the iCal links to Kerio on a PC server and not the OSX server

Thanks

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nxnw

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