Trouble syncing Calendars between iOS 5 and Snow Leopard

I updated my iPhone and iPad to iOS5 and the iCloud stuff seems to work great between them.
However, my Macbook is running Snow Leopard and I am unable to sync my calendars onto it from my iPhone or iPad.
Syncing my calendars with the Mac over iCloud would be ideal, but even the wired connection doesn't seem to sync the calendar anymore, as it always did.
Any suggestions how to fix this?

Do the referenced links on this tip: https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2551 say that calendar syncing is even possible with Snow Leopard? If not, you may wish to switch to another webhost such as those found on http://www.comparewebhosts.com/ if upgrading to Lion or installing Windows is not an option.

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