Sunbird: A few issues: viewing tasks and copying dates

Hello,
Does anyone know how to make tasks show up on the calander like events do?
Also, how do you copy an event and have it retain the time? I've tried copying and pasting events over into days throughout the month and instead of keeping the time of the orignial event, it inserts the current time. I'd like to use it for my work schedule, which changes days from week to week, but always starts at the same time.
Many thanks in advance for any help you can lend me.
~Jeremy~