Mail program changes ALL meeting invite (*.ics) to *.ifb

I previously have Leopard and when someone forward me a meeting invite from their Outlook application or even iCal, it will show up in my OSX Mail program as an .ics attachment. I can click on .ics attachment and it'll show up in iCal or any other calendar program, like BusyCal.
I upgraded to Snow Leopard last week and now the same meeting invite email will come with an *.ifb attachment*. This attachment *cannot be opened with ANY Calendar program, including iCal.*
However, if I change the attachment from .ifb to .ics, iCal can open it.
Can anyone tell me why Snow Leopard does this or if there is some settings that I am unaware of?
I don't want to have to change the calendar invite extension every time I received a meeting invite.

That's what my thoughts at first, but nothing changes in Outlook. I still use the same Outlook and so is my other clients. It's very rare that suddenly my company's Outlook program and about 20 of my clients' Outlook changes at the same time that causes the creation of the .ifb file instead of normal .ics or universal calendar invite.
Just for the heck of it, I re-installed Office in my 3 other laptops and sent test meeting invite and they all comes back as .ifb attachments.
I tried to open the .ifb files by double-clicking the file in Snow Leopard and point it to iCal and it didn't add the calendar invite.

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