ICal - MobileMe - Exchange

Good morning all,
until a few weeks ago, all was perfect in this world. Received invites in Mail (ics attachements), dropped them in iCal, which would sync to my iPhone through MobileMe.
Then "progress" came our way in the form of Exchange 2007. Had to tweak a few things (adding an exchange account into iCal for one). Now, invites show automatically in iCal, but under a separate set of calendars (I have my own drop down calendars, and then this new Exchange list of drop down calendar).
The thing is, those invites, not being in "my" local calendars, don't sync to my iPhone through MobileMe. How do I get this to work? Do I make sense ?
Thanks!
BisondesPrairies

Hi JWilson@ch,
So I thought I was the only person doing that crazy workflow to get everything synced. I do it exactly the same way.
I stupidly upgraded to the new MobileMe last year when first invited, and spent the next few days working out how to get it all back and working. I have been happily syncing everything the old way since then.
My major concern now is that I just received an email from MobileMe today saying I have to upgrade now as they have stopped syncing the old calendar! I haven't checked this yet (I will in a sec), but if I have to upgrade, that means I lose everything that has worked so well since MobileMe started.
My crappy work Blackberry is useless for mirroring my Outlook calendar, so syncing my work onto the much more user friendly iPhone had been a saviour. Now I have all of my work and personal appointments in the same place, and I never miss anything.
What to do now? Is there another way to get my PC calendar onto my iPhone, apart from the Exchange Activesync option which my office also doesn't support.
I'll hold out as long as I can...
Garry
Work PC (XP, Outlook 2003, Exchange Server 2010), home MacBook Pro (10.6.7), iPhone (4, iOS 4.3)

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Message was edited by: gdavidson79
Message was edited by: gdavidson79
Message was edited by: gdavidson79

There is an alternative way you could try which works very well for our client who uses both macs and pc's on a windows network.
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