ICal, Entourage and Invitations from Lotus Notes

I am in a small office where we run mostly Macs. I use Entourage 11.2.4 for my work email, and run Mail for a personal email account. I primarily use Entourage for calendaring, but I have it set up to sync with iCal largely just because I can.
Lately I have been receiving meeting invites from a user in a large company; the invites are generated in Lotus Notes.
The invite appears as a .ics file in Entourage (although oddly enough it appears as a .vcs file in my Treo 650 which I also use to receive email).
If I double-click on the invite in Entourage, it opens up in iCal. The problem there is that if I want to reply to the invite, it will launch Mail and -- therefore -- use my personal email account to reply to the invite. Which I do not want to do. I don't think there is any way I can get iCal to invoke Entourage as the email client for responding to an iCal invite (but if anybody knows one I'd be grateful for a hint).
If I can't invoke Entourage from iCal, what I'd like to do is to get Entourage to open the invitation directly into my Entourage calendar so I can respond out of Entourage. It doesn't work. I've tried saving the invitation to desktop, clicking on "get info" and changing the "open with" information to Entourage. Although that allows me to open the invitation, Entourage treats the .ics file as an invitation that I have created myself, not as an invitation I want to reply to. In other words, there is no option to reply.
I know somebody is going to suggest that the simplest fix would be to set up a work email account in Mail so that replies to invites could be sent out of Mail, but for the time being that won't work because due to a network connectivity problem within my office, Mail times out trying to reach my work mail server (although Entourage can most of the time). I've been trying to solve that since January without luck, so does anybody have any ideas for getting Entourage to handle the .ics file properly?
DXB Law
PowerBook G4 (1GB RAM); iMac Intel Core Duo (2GB RAM) Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Check out this; not sure it works, but I found it looking for similar answer.
http://www.icalshare.com/links.php
See link under "iCal via Entourage 0.1 (1759)" which actually will take you to a download page at:
http://www.zapptek.com/ical-mail/
There are some other versions for other email programs. Good Luck!

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Timezones when accepting invites from Lotus Notes

Hi there. This has come up before (for Notes 6), but to no avail.
I've noticed that invites from a correspondent using Notes 8 don't go into my calendar properly. The meetings take place at 11am EST, and I am in the UK (currently 5 hours ahead).
I have timezeone support enabled in iCal, but the events still go into my calendar as starting at 11am, and not at 4pm. Here's an extract from the ICS file I get from Notes. I can't see anything wrong with it, but the timezone rules seem to disappear once the event is in iCal:
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X-LOTUS-CHARSET:UTF-8
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TZOFFSETTO:-0500
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TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMINUTE=0;BYHOUR=2;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3
END:DAYLIGHT
END:VTIMEZONE
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DTEND;TZID="Eastern":20071008T120000
... why isn't iCal pulling through the timezone and adjusting accordingly?
Message was edited by: Ben Poole

Hi,
See http://www.nhoj.co.uk/yai . I wrote YAI to fix this sort of problem. If it doesn't work on your Lotus Notes invites, then let me know.
Best wishes
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I can find lots of discussions about this from 2010 but nothing recent. Is there a solution out there? Preferably in non-tech jargon.
Turning off time zone support only makes it worse. At least with time zone support on, I can go into the invite details to see the actual start time.
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Dear all,
I have the problem that the timezone is not correctly detected when importing invitations from Lotus Notes (PRODID:-//Lotus Development Corporation//NONSGML Notes 8.5.2//EN_C) The event is one hour too late, I cal thinks it is "standard time" and not "daylight saving time"
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I should clarify that.
Lotus Notes Meeting Invitations aren't being imported into iCal +with any degree of reliability+, and the more I look into this, the more mysterious it seems to get.
Here's my situation. 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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Meeting Invitation: Norman Conquest has invited you to a meeting
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Subject: Let's Kill an Hour, Shall We?
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click the link below to view your calendar
======================
So I just assumed I was foiled again because the messages were not in the right format.
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At first I thought the small number of meetings was simply due to the fact that I receive most of my work e-mail at work, on the iMac, so only those meeting invitations that I happened to open for the first time on my MacBook Pro had been imported. However, this turned out not to be the case, as I have observed many cases in which I have received new, unread meeting invitations on my MacBook Pro which have not been entered in iCal.
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Is there anyone out there who can at least shed a little light on what I've observed, if not help me get this process working at least quasi-reliably?

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