.ICS invitations show up correctly in iCal however email not sent

Hi all,
i'm running Lion OS X with iCal and Mail. I've received a few invitations from work through these systems and am not able to automatically send back my acceptance or decline the requests.
When the .ics file is shown in the email, I can sucessfully open this and it automatically creates a correct entry in iCal (Horray!!). The problem is that when I click on the entry I get an option to either accept or decline the meeting request. Clicking either doesn't seem to do anything?
I'm sure it has worked in the past but its definatley not working now and I wondered if anyone had an idea why? I've checked both the mail and iCal preferences and they are both set to work with invitations.
I guess if I need to I will look at a piece of 'middleware' that facilitates this, however I have no idea what I would need?
hope someone out there can help, thanks in advance.

Greetings,
With the new MobileMe calendar, invites are handled by the the MobileMe server via CalDAV rather than iCal having to pass an .ics file via Mail to your invitees. As you deduced, this is why invites do not show up in a recipient's iCal automatically as iCal looks for an attached .ics file in Mail to determine when to trigger the event invitation notification window.
Because this change is server based there is nothing to change in iCal (or Mail).
I would suggest:
A. Post this inquiry in the MobileMe forum: http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=116
B. Contact MobileMe to see if they have any suggestions beyond the built in "download .ics file" option offered by the web based event invitation. At the very least you can let them know that this is a feature you would like to see.: http://www.apple.com/support/mobileme/
Cheers.

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