Google Calendar Gadget suddenly stopped working

Howdy,

I just thought to pop next door from getsatisfaction/iwantsandy to my getsatisfaction/google_google_calendar neighbors to ask if anyone else had suddenly experienced a Google Calendar Gadget that went ga-ga?

Here's what I just posted to Google Groups: Google Calendar, in case it is helpful, anyone else has experienced the same issue (now or at another time), or there's a quick fix someone's happened across.

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http://getsatisfaction.com/google/pro...

Hi,
I run the I want Sandy service over at http://iwantsandy.com. We've
had a Google Calendar Gadget used by a number of our users at
http://iwantsandy.com/static/gcal_gad... for a while now and it
has been working perfectly, until...
A day or so ago it summarily stopped working.
I checked the gadget iCalendar file and nothing's changed (aside from
its just being updated for a few more days every few days). I checked
it against the similar calendars of other comparable services and
nothing's out of place.
While I can subscribe to the calendar -- and it shows up as it always
have in the public list of calendars -- it no longer shows the icon on
my Google Calendar.
I made an exact copy of the file and put it at http://iwantsandy.com/static/gcal_gad...
and subscribed to that. It worked for all of 2 seconds (showed the
icon, etc) and then came back with an error: "Couldn't fetch
URL" (this thrown by Google Calendar via JavaScript). I tried again 3
times and suddenly, on the third try, it worked.
The original URL, though, http://iwantsandy.com/static/gcal_gad...
still shows a blank calendar.
Please can you provide some insight into why this is happening: I'd
like our clients to have a smooth experience using Google Calendar
with our service, but this is seemingly beyond our control (and the
control of the other posters who have experienced this sort of thing
in the thread pointed out by Dan above).

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—Rael