Does anyone know of another way to incorporate a public outlook
calendar with Events or Tasks? We have a public outlook  calendar for
our team and I just want to display it on our WSS Team site.

I am also looking exactly the same..
If you found any solution can you please share with me..

Here's what I've tried thus far.
I went to my mysite and exported my mycalendar.dwp. Then I imported it
to my team page (PS&I Team Central (WSS Team Site)). Then I modified
the settings to point to the "\PS&I\Project Calendar" Exchange Folder.
Unfortunately I don't think there is a proper "mailbox" for this
calendar. So I cannot get the calendar to display...

Did you look at my latest blog post?
http://mindsharpblogs.com/todd

I talk about how to do this using a CEWP (requires that every client
have Outlook).

ok, but I don't want my personal calendar. I want a calendar in a
public folder of Outlook.

Read closer, you can display ANY Outlook folder.

Maybe I should have my eyes checked. I don't see anywhere to change
which calendar it looks at?

Add the following code to a CEWP to display a Public Folder:


<OBJECT classid="CLSID:0006F063-0000-0000-C000-000000000046"
width="100%">
<param name="Folder" value="\\Public Folders\All Public
Folders\[FolderName]">
</OBJECT>


Replace the [FolderName] with the name of the public folder that you
want to show.

Would this be added under the "Source Editor..." section of the CEWP.
I've added this code there but the CEWP is empty.

Yes, it would be added under the "Source Editor..." section. The Web Part will
display empty if you do not provide a valid public folder name.

Do I take out the previously existing OBJECT ID stuff?

<OBJECT id="MyOutlookCalendar"
classid="CLSID:0006F063-0000-0000-C000-000000000046">
<param name="Folder" value="Calendar">
</OBJECT>

and replace it with the code you submitted (with the correct folder
name/path)?

Because when I did it was just blank. When I leave it in (have both
Object IDs) it just shows my personal calendar.

The OBJECT classid, param name, and value must all be kept syntactically
just like they are (not sure you need the id but I don't think it will
hurt either).

In the code that you have below, simply replace the string "Calendar"
with:
"\\Public Folders\All Public Folders\[FolderName]"

Make sure to replace the [FolderName] with the name of the public folder
that you want to show. So, the entire contents of the CEWP to show a
public folder called Todd would be as follows:

<OBJECT id="MyToddPublicFolder"
classid="CLSID:0006F063-0000-0000-C000-000000000046">
<param name="Folder" value="\\Public Folders\All Public Folders\Todd">
</OBJECT>

Ack, it must have just been a char in the wrong place or some
word-wrappage.

Great. You DO have to be connected to the network so that Outlook can be
used as the conduit to the data. If Outlook cannot "see" the data, the
Web Part will render as empty (or may eventually time out, I just didn't
wait).

I am revisitng this for another dept. And this calendar keeps
defaulting to the Today's Date view.
Is there a way to set this to default to the month view.
Here is the code I ganked:
-----------------------
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript">
function genNewAppointment()
{
try
{
var o = document.getElementById('MyOutlookCalendar');
if (o)
{
o.NewAppointment();
}
}
catch(e)
{
window.status = e.Message;
}
}

</script>
<input type="button" id="cmdNewAppointment" value="New Appointment"
NAME="cmdNewAppointment" OnClick="genNewAppointment();">

<OBJECT id="MyOutlookCalendar"
classid="CLSID:0006F063-0000-0000-C000-000000000046"
width="100%" height="500px">
<param name="Folder" value="\\Public Folders\All Public
Folders\HMC\CountyCare Fitness Schedule">
</OBJECT>

If you want to host a public calendar in SharePoint, the main change that you’ll need to make is that the R/W calendar will be in SharePoint, not Outlook. Otherwise, it should be very doable.

It is in the configuration of the web part. You need to tell it which mailbox to look at. Initially it doesn't display any mailbox.