Syncing iCal on Snow Leopard MBpro with Lion machines

I upgraded my iMac and MBAir to Lion and went on iCloud to sync calendars with my old MBpro which can only go up to Snow Leopard. The two Lion Macs sync fine, but the Snow Leopard one wont sync and in preferences it says my accounthas 'been upgraded to iCloud'. Is there anyway to make the Snow Leopard machine sync through iCloud?
thanks
Doug

The official answer is that iCloud requires Lion and you can't sync your calendar with Snow Leopard.
The unofficial answer is that a workaround has been suggested, and has worked at least for some people:
Go to iCal preferences.
Set up new account.
Account Type:  CalDAV
User Name:  Your MobileMe / iCloud email address
Password:  Your password for above
Server Address:  p06-caldav.icloud.com
This page give a similar process with some more details which may or may necessary:
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20111014102515403&msg=15
I haven't tried any of this and have no idea whether or how well it works. BACK UP YOUR CALENDARS BEFORE PROCEEDING!

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