Customize iCal invite Email text + subject

Hi everybody,
want to customize the Email design for business purpose.
Subject = Event invitation: Sales figures, thurs. 27.06.2012
Email content =
"Full name" has invited you to an event: Sales figures, thurs. 27.06.2012. To accept or decline this event, open the attached invitation. If you can not open this file, please just respond to this Email, if you can attend the meeting.
Thanks.
Kind regards
Signature
I found this:
System/Library/Frameworks/CalendarStore.framework iTip.strings -> here it is possible to set strings
And I tried to set the date:
/Applications/iCal.app/Contents/Resources/Mail.applescript
set subjectLine to subjectLine & begDate
But !!! so changes to this file will not be reflected in iCal behavior unless manually recompiled.-> how to do this?
But:
1. where to set the date in the subject?
2. how to include the date in the email content?
3. how to include the signature?
4. where to set the style?
Anybody an idea? Developer welcome to contact me.
thx

This issue has resulted in a loss of productivity here than you can't imagine. Every PDF we create out of File Maker to be emailed must be copied to a new email. Each person creates between 10 and 100 auto-generated emails with attached PDFs a day. I estimate that our team of 13 people lose about 3.25 hours of productivity collectively per day (assuming a low 30 seconds per email). It's been about a month and a half now since that update...maybe 2. That ends up over 130 hours of lost productivity due to a "bug". I'll be sure to send Steve an invoice for the thousands of dollars this "bug" has cost us, I'll send it with the black background tho. This shouldn't have to wait for an OS update release, wrap it up in a security fix or something.

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