Accepting invites in iCal

Currently I have a problem accepting invites in iCal on the mac. Specifically after pressing accept I get the following error:
The request for “invite title” in “Calendar” in account “MobileMe” failed.
The server responded with
“HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request”
to operation CalDAVWriteEntityQueueableOperation.
If I accept the ics on the iphone however it adds it to the iphone calendar, but then does not sync with mobile me.
Any help great appreciated.
Cheers

I am having the exact same problem when trying to SEND invitations. I removed my me.com account from Mobile Me and then re-created it hoping that would solve the problem, but.... The problem persists. This just began happening yesterday -- long after the most recent iCal update. And, I have no alarms as part of the invitations I send. Any ideas?

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