Can't pin a Google Calendar shortcut to the quick launch bar in Windows 7

[Arkitech]

I was working on a client's system yesterday and they wanted to have the Google Calendar shortcut on the desktop pinned to the quick launch bar. Normally I would just drag and drop the shortcut to the quick launch bar and it stays in place. However in this instance when I try to drop the shortcut on the quick launch it only allows it to be pinned to Internet Explorer (which I don't want). Has anyone ever seen this? How do I get around it?

 

[Gooberlx2]

What browser? IE9 and Chrome both can make dedicated "application shortcuts" for a particular page, which is pretty useful. I do that with Chrome for gmail and calendar. Dunno if Firefox has such a feature.

edit: Otherwise, here's the same problem regarding pinning folders to the taskbar. I'm not 100% sure, but I'd imagine the workaround concepts would apply to webpages as well.
http://www.unawave.de/windows-7-tipps/folder-to-taskbar.html?lang=EN

 

[gsaldivar]

In Win7 it's still possible to to use the good-old Quick Launch bar and put as many shortcuts as you want in there:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975784