Sending ical event to coworker

Every time I send an event no information goes with it? What am I missing?

After getting no answers to this, I decided to open a real problem, so I went to Support.Apple.com and within a few short clicks, Apple called me.
I accidentally hung up on them, and they called back in 2 minutes.
I then waited in the queue for a few short minutes.  The person who answered, understood my problem and transferred me to the iCal department where I waited another 15 minutes. 
The iCal department then did some research for 10 minutes, and came back to tell me that, unfortunately, iCal is working / not broken.  I disagreed, saying that this is my business computer and not being able to send meeting invites to anyone not using a MAC is insane.    
The support guy suggested I tell the developers directly, via http://www.apple.com/feedback/ical.html.
I did.
He suggested that you all do to.  The more people who feedback, the faster we'll get a fix!

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