[7" Kindle Fire HD General] CheriePie:
Still haven't gotten this working completely yet but let me tell you where I'm at and what I've tried so far.

As I mentioned previously, when installing the Google Play version of Calendar, I now see an icon for Google's Calendar app in my app drawer. It's called Calendar just like stock Kindle one, but it's got a different icon, a calendar day page with #31 instead of a month view looking one like the Kindle version. Since I couldn't get an app icon to appear for the Google Calendar in my app drawer any other way so far, this was one way I could. (Just thought of something... maybe clear out ALL my google credentials system wide, if that means clear data on the GoogleLoginService.apk or GoogleServicesFramework.apk, though I would've thought that copying over them with the same versions from the google_apps.zip would've accomplished the same thing. hmmm)

Anyway, when I launch Calendar for the first time, it prompts me if I want to use an existing google account or set up a new one. Generally I have to just back out of that or choose the Not Now option*. It then brings me to an empty calendar page. If I go to Settings, I see my valid gmail account listed and after a second or two, it pulls up the list of my calendars. (I have my own plus several shared/public ones I use.) If I then select just my main one, or even that and a few others, it'll proceed to load them up fine on the Calendar main page. However once I leave the app--and it unloads from memory either by a reboot or android's own memory processing--it again brings me back to a blank calendar where I have to repeat the process above, selecting the calendars I want to sync from the list under my account name.

The one time I did set up an account on Calendar launch (and it didn't complain that account already exists), was the first time I mentioned in my previous message, where I had my gmail account listed twice in Calendar's settings. Because of that, it was obvious that even though my Calendar icon wasn't getting placed, the Calendar itself was syncing in the background even without the Play version installed.

Because of this, I figured if I uninstalled the google play version (after first copying the relevant apk out of /data/apps dir), I could then put that apk into the /system/apps directory (without running an install) and it'd work the way it's supposed to.

That's where I'm at now and though it appears to almost be working right, the list of my calendars that I want to use isn't remembered from one launch of the app to the next (unless it's still residing in memory as I mentioned above). There's a whole bunch more different ways I can try this, but I've been pretty busy and this has become fairly time consuming so I might just give up for now and use the web version of Calendar until I have more time to troubleshoot this, esp since everything else including voice search, google universal search, gmail, play store, are all working wonderfully. That is, unless you have any other suggestions you want me to try. *shrug* I didn't like how it was sending notifications to my status bar anyway even though I unchecked notifications, since I already get the notifications on my mobile which is more with me 24x7.

PS - Australian Shepherds are a beautiful breed. I'm a dog lover as well, though I can be a little allergic to their hair so not worth it for me to keep one, esp since I live in a complex and don't have my own yard too. Love that my house rabbits are litter pan trained like cats too. I did grow up in a house with dogs though when I was younger, and my mom and sister (who live about an hour away in a more rural part of CA) both still have dogs. Oh and of course, I always pet and talk to the dogs (and their owners ;) in our complex. <3