Ical doesn't execute .ics meeting invitations

Hello everybody,
My iCal and Mail just worked fine for quite a while. When I received meeting invites in Mail, sent from Lotus Notes, they automatically appeared in iCal, and I could accept or decline them, and my response was sent back through Mail. So far, so good.
Now, all of a sudden, this won't happen anymore. I tried to manually detach .ics attachments from my invites in Mail, save them to the desktop, and double click on them to force them appearing in iCal - no result.
I'm left without a clue - can anybody help me out on this?
Appreciate your feedback,
Sincerely gulpithegulp

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