Subscribe to a Google Calendar

I like the fact that I can sync my iCal to Google Calendar and have my officemates access it.
Now, my problem is this: How can I use iCal to subscribe to my officemate's Google Calendar?
On iCal, I clicked on "Subscribe" and pasted my officemate's Google Calendar address like: http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/.... .calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics.
I get the error as follows:
"Error subscribing to calendar. No calendar was found on http://yadda yadda yadda... Please check the URL."
What am I doing wrong? Please help.

It's probable that your office mate has disabled sharing of their calendar. Get them to check the sharing settings and make sure that either:
Share all information on this calendar with everyone
or:
Share only my free / busy information (hide details)
are set, not:
Do not share with everyone
Check this page:
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=34577&hl=en
for more information on sharing.
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