Icloud calendar conversion for a family?

For the past 8 or so years I've used a webdav server hosted on my own website for the 6-7 family calendars.  I've just upgraded to 4s's and I have 7 mac's in my house and I am hoping to use Icloud as a calendar server.  Each computer in the house sees all the calendars. 
1st Issue: Is it better to each have icloud account for space or should we all use 1 icloud account for simplicity?
2nd Issue: some of my Macs are unupgradable to Lion, either for hardware reasons (2 macs), or because I use multitrack editing on final cut pro and apple screwed up its launch of final cut (hereby named Imovie PLUS).  This mac (a mac pro) is stuck on snow leopard. When I've been playing with ical on Icloud I can't seem to connect to icloud with a snow leapard computer.
These issues seem to be typical of Apple in the past few years, ignore the install base (oh, just upgrade everything to lion and it will run fine!), or design products which ignore family issues (with 7 computers which 5 are linked on a single apple id).  Icloud calendar appears to have no backward compatibility to snow leopard, AND why don't we have instructions for husband and wife and a few kids for how to use these products?

I apologize for semi-hijacking the topic of this thread from "Multiple iCould IDs with single AppleID. Possible?" 
Perhaps my reasoning for doing this was flawed, but here it is.  That thread was started back in June when the real details of iCloud were somewhat conjecture.  It is now about 14 pages long.  There are some recent posts to the thread, but for the life of me I can't tease a solution to my question above out of them.  I just may not be reading carefully enough.  If so, I apologize.
What I am looking for is more of a STEP BY STEP guide to setting up iOS 5 and OS 10.7.2 for a family in my situation with my needs.  I think I do represent a fair segment of users.
If the monitors of this forum think my thread should be tack on to the end of the above mentioned forum...by all means do so.
Honestly, If Steve were alive today I think he would not be happy with this situation faced by Apple customers.  Steve always said his guiding mantra for his products was..."It just works."  I honestly believe he meant that.  But, with regard to this iCould business...for normal pedestrian users like myself,  I would have to say, "It just doesn't work."

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