Preventing ical from sending response to organizer

I been sending some of my (outlook)work meetings to my home email to import them into iCal at home. However iCal insist on sending a response to the meeting organizer.
Is there a way to block this behaviour (sending a response)?
It causes confusion and concern as they do not know my home email address and it also inflates the number of invitees in the eyes or the organizer.
Thanks
PB 15 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Hi,
There is a way to open all invitation replies in Mail, so you can choose to send a reply or not. You will need admin rights on the machine and it will involve changing an Applescript file inside iCal's application package. Also I suppose some experience of using Script Editor would be handy.
Please make sure you know what you are doing. If you need any more explanation, post back.
* Control-Click the iCal Application in the Finder.
* Choose 'Show Package Contents' from the contextual menu.
* In the new window that appears go to Contents/Resources.
* In here find the file called 'Mail.scpt'.
* Make a copy of this file and save it somewhere safe (in case somthing goes wrong).
* Double click the original 'Mail.scpt' file, it should open in Script Editor.
* In the script there are six handlers: showmailsbrs, showmailsbr, sendmailsb, sendmailsbr, sendmailsbrp and sendmailsbp. These all start with the word 'on'.
* In the handler that starts 'on sendmailsbrp(subjectLine, messageText, myrecipient, invitationPath)' find the line: send mymail
* Replace this with the following six lines:
-- Altered to open notifications in Mail.app without sending
-- Original line quoted out below.
-- send mymail
set visible of mymail to true
activate
-- End Altered to open notifications* Save the script and you're done.
Your replies to invitations should now open in Mail for you to choose if you want them sent or not.
I hope this helps
John M

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