gnomecal: "Error loading calendar: Could not load the calendar"

[kf <ken cleveland lug net>]

While editing appointments, my system crashed (AMD sucks).  When the 
system came back up, gnomecal came up fine, but all my appointments were 
gone.  I found ~/.gnome/user-cal.vcf and ~/.gnome/user-cal.vcf~ and 
viewing them showed that the data was still there. When I load gnomecal 
from the command line, I get the error "Error loading calendar: Could 
not load the calendar". How do I get my appointments back?

I've googled for this problem, found others who've experienced a similar 
problem, but haven't found a solution.  I've read the docs, but haven't 
found this issue addressed.  Wasn't able to find anything on the gnome 
website either.

I'm using gnomecal version 1.2.0 on Linux kernel 2.4.7-10 (RedHat 7.2).

Please cc ken cleveland lug net as I'm not subscribed to this list.

Please help me get the appointments back.

TIA,
kf