I may be remembering things very incorrectly but I thought thunderbird handled addons like firefox. Check in the tools menu and see if the addons option is there...it may have a search like in firefox 3 else here is the download page: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/2313
Google calendar provider isnt required, you just set up a caldav calendar link (I use this for sunbird...the standalone version of lightning) here are the instructions (just choose the sunbird option http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=99358#sunbird Hope that helps dude -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/