linking task to contact

[janrif]

OK, so here's the situation:

I have contact X, tel #, email, etc. in contact group
I create a task r/c to contact x begin date = tomorrow begin time 11:00am. I set a reminder 15 minutes so should come up @ 10:45am

But I don't have tel # in task so I link to contact by
focus on task <ALT>L link scroll until I find contact & <enter>
task now indicates shortcut but clicking on task doesn't jump to contact.

What did I do wrong or how should I have set up this common task? Thank you.