Link to MobileMe calendar subscriptions in Pages '09

I am working on a document with the end goal of sending out a PDF with links to subscribe to shared MobileMe calendars.
I am using Pages '09, version 4.0.5 (852), Mac OS X 10.6.7, and the new CalDAV MobileMe calendar. The problem is that every time I crate a link to the shared MobileMe webcal, Pages 'auto-corrects' the URL to begin with "http://" and breaks the link.
How I am currently creating the links:
     - Select text
     - Click the Link tab in the Inspector window
     - Click the "Hyperlink" tab
     - Check the box to "Eable as a hyperlink"
     - Choose "Webpage" from the "Link To:" drop down menu
     - Copy and paste the link to the shared MobileMe calendar (webcal://www.me.com...) in the URL: field.
Pages will automatically add in "http://" to the beginning of the URL.  After this, the link takes the reader to a blank webpage rather than adding a new subscribed calendar as expected.
I have found a work around:
     - Open Finder and navigate to the desired Pages document.
     - Copy the Pages document
     - Rename the Pages document to end in ".zip" (without quotes) and choose "Use .zip" when prompted
     - Open the new ZIP file
     - Open the extracted folder (should have the same name as the ZIP file)
     - Open index.xml with TextEdit or another plain text editor
     - Use the Find and Replace feature (⌘F in TextEdit) to replace all occurrences of "http://webcal://" with "webcal://" (without quotes)
     - Save and Close index.xml
     - Go back to Finder, open the folder that was created by unzipping the the Pages document
     - Select all items in the folder (⌘A)
     - Choose File > Compress [number] Items from the menu bar
     - Rename the newly crated "Archive.zip" to "[document title].pages" (without quotes). Put the name of your document in place of [document title]
     - Open the newly created Pages document and immediately choose Share > Export... from the menu bar
Does anyone know of a more elegant way to accomplish this?
Thanks,
NChiu

I can't help you on the not having http:// part of the equation. One simpler step for you though is after you have made all your changes, instead of selecting everything in the folder and archiving, just add the extension .pages to the folder.
I know it isn't much help, but maybe a little.

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