On Sep 20, 2011, at 2:07 PM, Jason Miller wrote:

 It should also not force me to use a fatal option of "revert to server" when that will cause it to delete the imported event. It would be nice if it would say, "Okie, I'll take this event, but I don't know who those invitees are."

The alternative seems to be an inability to import the data at all with an iCal client...?

The server is doing you a big favor by not accepting invalid data :) It's critical that the starting conditions be correct, or this just won't work.

-dre