ICal -- Entourage Incompatibility?

I'm running Tiger 10.4.10, and Entourage 11.3.8. It would appear that there is (still) some latent incompabiliy between iCal-originated events and Entourage (MS Office 2004 for Mac) invitees. I have the latest versions of iCal (2.0.5), Tiger (10.4.10), and Entourage (11.3.8). I'm aware that there have been issues related to DST, but my understanding is that these should have been corrected by software upgrades.
It appears that the problem I'm seeing occurs only when iCal creates an event and invites an Entourage user. Here are my observations of such events:
1. In the invitation email as received by Entourage, the End Date is shown as *January 1, 1601*. Clearly this is incorrect.
2. The event posts to the entourage calendar, but with a duration of zero (even though the original event was created in iCal with a non-zero duration, say, 1 hour).
3. The event does NOT initially show up in any of the Entourage Calendar views (Month, for example). Apparently, this is due to the fact that the duration is zero.
4. If you open the event in Entourage and manually change the duration to a non-zero value, then the event will show up in Calendar views.
5. However, the event is still displayed in Calendar view with a start time that is *one hour earlier* than the actual start time (the event itself displays the correct start time).
Invitations originated by another instance of Entourage seem to post correctly in all respects, so it would appear that there is some sort of incompatibility issue between iCal and Entourage?
Is anyone else seeing this behavior and/or does anyone know of a fix for it?
Thanks!

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