When I receive invitations from outlook, it goes onto my calendar. However, when i "accept" the invitation it does not appear as accepted to the inviter, even when my "status" says "accepted".

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I am on a MAC OS X 10.7.4 (Lion).  In essence, I cant really tell if when I check the acceptance, it notifies the inviter that I have accepted. Therefore, I worry that my appointment may not be registered with them. So I send an email to confirm that I have accepted the appointment. It is a  MAJOR inconvenience as I am a consultant working with corporations and I am always a little uncertain as to whether my appointment will be on the other's calendar.  I see many issues with calendar invites not showing up, but my problem is that it DOES show up, it does appear on my calendar and I AM able to click "accept", but I am never really sure if the inviter receives the acceptance. Any thoughts on how to fix this problem?  Thanks!

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The original install had 3 regular users, and I'm also seeing the "Shared" user when looking at the volume via Terminal. On my new disk, I created a user (with admin rights) with the same name as one of the users on the back up. When I log in as this user and then start Backup again, the home directory of that user is visible in Backup. However, the home directory I want is still hidden.
On a side note: I'm wondering whether these full or incremental backups are somehow similar to .dmg files, since they seem to appear in the /Volumes list while Backup is restoring from a backup file.
What I am doing right now, is to have Backup do a complete restore. But as soon as I started Backup, I opened a terminal window,did a cd (change directory) to the backup file (which appears as a volume). Then I copied the contents I of the home directory I want (via cp -R <home-directory-name> <destination>) to another hard disk.
Interestingly enough, I noticed that Backup, while it was doing the restore, opened a dialog indicating that it could not close the backup file because it was in use by me having a Terminal window open in one of its directories. As soon as I closed the terminal window, and allowed Backup to re-try, it successfully continued, opening the next backup file in succession.
As soon as it continued, I cd-ed into the home directory of that next backup file, and copied the contents of the home directory from it. So, I'm doing this for the home directory in question for all backup files. I assume that this gets me as many copies (versions) of the home directory as there are backup files.
The next thing I need to to after all backup files have been processed, is to manually try to consolidate all the extracted home directory versions into a single one. Yes, this sounds insane, and it is, but until I know of another way to solve this problem, it's the only thing I can do
What a fantastic way to spend a weekend!