questions about iCal in Leopard

[Gregg Dinse]

Hi,

I just upgraded to Leopard and I have 2 questions about iCal:

1. I like to display "mini months" along the left side of the iCal  
window.  Under Leopard, the default seems to be 2 months -- the  
current month and the next month.  I like to see as many as will fit  
in the window, which in my case is 5 months.  Also, I like to start  
with the past month rather than the current month.  I can not figure  
out a way to have this viewing preference persist under Leopard.   
Whenever I quit the app and restart it, I'm back to only seeing the  
current month and the next month (along with a bunch of wasted space  
with nothing in it).  My preferred view was saved after quitting iCal  
in Tiger (and before).  How can I get this to work in Leopard, or is  
this a bug?

2. In iCal under Tiger, there was a button on the bottom right of the  
main window which toggled the Show Information panel to open or  
close.  I always left this panel open.  When I wanted to see  
information about an event, I could just click on that event and its  
information appeared in the Info panel (which was already open).  If I  
wanted to change any settings for that event, I could do so right  
away.  Now under Leopard, the only way I can see information about an  
existing event is to double click on the event.  This brings up a Show  
Information balloon that hovers near the event to which it  
corresponds.  If I want to change any settings, then I have to click  
on the Edit button.  This is several extra steps.  I found that I  
could drag the balloon and drop it outside the iCal window, which I  
hoped would convert it to a panel that stuck around, but no such  
luck.  Is there a way to always have an information panel open and  
ready to edit?

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

Gregg