Creating an iCal Reminder from Apple Mail & Syncing with iCloud

I’ve attempted to “Go Native” with my MacBook Pro, Apple OS X Lion, my iPhone, and iOS 5, trying to use built-in functionality rather than third-part applications. That includes using Reminders as a replacement for Things, especially since Cultured Code seems to be on the “Duke Nukem Forever” plan for rolling out cloud syncing.

So I was rather dismayed to find out that Apple has, in their infinite wisdom, removed the ability to create new To-Do’s from Apple Mail in Lion. So I cobbled together a script using some code from StackExchange, but for some odd reason the script kept creating entries in the Birthday calendar. Thanks to some help from MacTech, I zeroed in on how to specify the proper calendar.