I'm not sure if you'll see this 2 days later, but I've been trying to make heads or tails of your example and I think there’s a mistake in there somewhere.
Maybe I'm hopelessly lost, but, for one, the inverse of
( 1 1 1)
( 1 2 3)
( 1 2 4)
is not: ( 2 -1 0)
(-3 2 -1)
( 1 -2 1)
On the off chance you see this, any pointers?