FTP issues on Mac OS X Server 10.6.4

This is my first server ever working with so you'll have to bear with me
I just set up the server with FTP and all is well, but I have a few issues:
1. When connecting to the FTP server on a Windows machine with my standard FTP program or in the Firefox web browser, it does not direct the user to the root folder I have set in the Server Admin Settings. I have it set to "/Library/FTPServer/FTPRoot", which has all the share points, but instead the user will see their home folder. On Mac it works fine, they see the share points.
2. When connecting to the FTP server in Firefox, I get "550 (filename): Not a directory" error when trying to download a file from the list, but I can view directory listings fine.
I'm sure it just some setting I've missed, but I can't seem to find a solution to this. Any idea what's wrong?

Any ideas? Still struggling with this problem...

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