Spam alert: iCloud Calendar merge problem

Last night, I updated my iPhone 3GS to iOS 5. I selected the iCloiud option for, amongst other things, my Calendar.
This morning, it appears that anyone who invited me to a meeting in 2011 received spam telling them that I had accepted. I think they were all for past meetings, but I'm not sure. I'm also not positive about it just being 2011, but I didn't notice anything earlier than January (many of these notes went to another account I use).
Now, I am totally-afraid to use iCloud Calendar Merge, although it would be a great tool for me if I could also enable it on my MBAir.
Is there a known problem, here, being resolved?
Thanks,
g

Thanks for the advice, It sounds like a work-around. Unfortunately, at this point, I'm too worried about re-spamming everyone and think iCloud has too many limitations to take up the battle again.
iCloud seems to work well for simple lists, like Safari Bookmarks. I suppose that's something. Apple tends to stay on the simple side of non-core software (just good enough to say they have it), so I'm not expecting the situation to change much.
Another area I wish they'd beef up is Reminders. Appigo's To Do is way better, but it means a separate sync operation that only works wirelessly. Given it's syncing with iCal, you'd think there'd be a better answer. Outlook is richer, but synchronization was ugly, last time I used it.

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