Need to share calendars in Outlook and automate process of multiples posts on multiple calendars

My company uses Exchange Server 2003. Most PCs have Outlook for Office 2003. SOme have Outlook for Office Small Business Edition.

We are trying to get everyone to make better use of Outlook's calendar feature, but Outlook isn't making this easy.

Firstly, I would like everyone to initiate all their appointments on their personal calendar. Next, I would like all employees to be able to see each person's schedule when they schedule meetings with each person. I would like all people to be able to invite the meeting room as a resource so they can see if the meeting room is free at the desired time. Finally, I would like to make it easy for people to copy their appointment on their personal calendar to the meeting calendar, and if it's not a meeting but an outisde appointment or vacation, to the public calendar. It needs to be even easier than holding CTRL and dragging to the other calendar - I'm thinking a button that I could load onto everyone's machine.

 I will need to write a really easy-to-understand process for everyone to have any hope that they will use it properly, so too many steps and it's no good. I would consider a third-party application if it will truly solve this problem cheaply.

It seems to me that Outlook should support this kind of use but I've looked through EE solutions already and haven't found a way to do all of these things.

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