Plea to Apple to sort iCal invitations - or has someone got a workaround?

Question

I know there are a million threads on this topic, so I've phrased this more as a plea to Apple to sort out rather than a question. But there is a question - has anyone got a workaround this?
I use iCal and MacMail. I have 2 email accounts and 2 calendars. Let's call them Mail.1, Mail.2, Cal.1 and Cal.2 so I can talk about them below. My calendars are not local, I use Google to host them.
All I want is this:
1) To 'tie' an email account to a calendar account, such that;
2) Meeting requests that I receive in account Mail.1 go into Cal.1
3) Meeting requests that I recieve in 1 account Mail.2 go into Cal.2
4) Responses (accept/decline/maybe) to be 'sent' from the mail account associated with that calendar
5) When I create a meeting go from the mail account associated with that calendar
At the moment, this is totally hosed in iCal. Meeting invites, for me, pitch-up in the wrong calendar. Meeting request responses come from the wrong email address (so the receivers' calendar client gets confused, as do they). You can't change the calendar if you are not the organiser.......the list of problems goes on.
Basically, you can't run a home and work life on a Mac at the same time and it all seems so simple to fix. So, please Apple - fix it.
Message was edited by: Rob Wheatley

Answer 1

Are you working on the "new and improved" version of iCal that uses CalDAV? What a frickin' disaster "upgrading". Used to be able to move invites to other calendars, not any more! The only work around is to duplicate it and change it. But then you have two events.
I used to be able to hide information on events so people just know I'm busy. Why do they need to know my business?? Not any more. I've had to resort to copying every event into a "published" calendar and use the old version. At least until they kill it.
Very frustrating.