Adjusting and theming Event Views

Per a thread I had started elsewhere, I am having a minor difficulty adjusting the view of a Calendar I have created containing Events. I would like to create a calendar view of Events, make the default view the 'month' view, and have the calendar and events properly sized so that the titles of the Events on any day are readable but there isn't alot of extra space. This is what I have done and the problem:

- Under Administer/Events/Event Overview, I have the default view to be the month view.
- Under Administer/Content Management/Content Types/Events, I have added a field to Events called 'Event_Type'.
- I then created specific content that are Events, called 'Tennis Parties'; I set the Event_Type field equal to ''tennisparty'.
-Under Administer/Site Building/Views, I have set up a particular view (the 'Tennis Calendar'), chosen the View Type as a Calendar, and then filtered by only allowing those Events which have Event_Type equal to tennisparty.

When I go to the Tennis Calendar page, I see a 12-month view. The url for the page is: http://www.princetonbeagle.com/TennisCalendar. What step did I miss to insure a month default view? Is it because I am using the Calendar module -- is there another place where I need to enable the month-default view?
In the month view, the events have literally "(Date/Time)" on them, I would like to remove that, as well as resize the line spacing to make the day size more uniform -- is this possible or do I need to change the theme file?

I am using Drupal 5.0, have the Event5.x-1.x and Calendar5.x-1.3 modules (as well as Date5.x-1.3) installed.
Many Thanks for any help!