Ical syncing between 2 versions of Leopard

I've got a 20"Imac and a Macbook Pro both of which I have Leopard installed on at this time. I was excited about Leopard because I had read that it would allow users to make changes from both computers and they would update on the calender itself. Well, my original calendars were setup under the previous version of Ical on the Imac and so I couldnt update the calendar off the laptop. But now, I dont understand why it wont work. Shouldnt I be able to edit the calendar? But I just get a error msg saying that I cant edit a calendar that I am subscribed to. Well, how else am I supposed to look at the calendar on the Macbook Pro?
Any help on this would be appreciated.
Thanks.
MP

the group sharing features of ical are only available if your ical calendars are being run and managed on a compatible CalDAV server such as ical server.
you may want to look at the following products:
www.calgoo.com
www.spanningsync.com
both products will allow for syncing of ical calendars between macs across the internet. i have not tried calgoo - they have a free and paying option - but have tried spanning sync which has worked quite well for me so far - spanning sync costs money though.
hope this helps

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