How do I reply to meeting invitations in Mail?

I first have to say that every day Apple loses even more of my respect. I have been wasting SO much time trying to navigate around bugs, issues, and flaws in their systems. The latest is this: I am unable to reply to meeting requests in Mail. Really trying to use it lately for business but its just not easy. I will be forced to go back to Outlook if this simple function isn't available. Help??!! I see lots of old posts about this question but no solutions. Anyone know if they fixed this and how I make it work? Thanks in advance.

Unfortunately MrHoffman there aren't that many choices or I would.
As for adding events to the calendar, that wasn't the problem. The problem is: I am unable to reply to meeting requests in Mail.
Of course I click on the ICS in the email and yes it goes to the calendar, but it does not give me the option to "Accept" or "Decline" an invitation. OR to "Respond with comments". For example, to suggest another time. The person sending the invitation now thinks you simply ignored it which isn't the case.
Any help with figuring this part out?

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Later I happened to open my MacBook Pro, and, much to my surprise, I found that a small number of meetings had actually found their way into iCal, and in at least one case I know of, one has actually been rescheduled! I could hardly contain myself.
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I use an iMac at work and a MacBook Pro at home. They recently switched to a Notes-based calendar program at work, and since I don't have the Notes client installed on either machine (someone from our IT department has spent about four hours trying to install it on the iMac with no success) and the web application only works with IE 6, and there is no provision for synching the calendar with my PDA, when I heard that the e-mail meeting invitations could be imported into iCal, I was all over that.
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When I initially looked into it, I found several threads (e.g. http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5186410) in the iCal forum about time zones not being imported correctly (I wish my problems were that minor!) from Lotus Notes meeting invitations. But these threads showed vCal messages and mentioned error dialogs. I hadn't seen any dialogs, and my meting invitations are just plain text messages like this:
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Meeting Invitation: Norman Conquest has invited you to a meeting
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