Permissions Issues on Network Drives

I work in an office where several computers all access a server that has 5 drives connected to it. The server is a 450MHz PowerPC G4 tower and is currently running 10.3.9. We installed Leopard on two of the computers here (a Duel 1.25GHz PowerPC G4 and a Duel 2GHz PowerPC G5 tower) before realizing we could no longer create folders on the server drives. When the new folder is created, it appears with a red minus sign and no usergroup has access to it. It also disallows changes to be made to the folder in changing permissions or adding new users or usergroups.
We recently discovered we can make folders inside of already created folders in the drives. For example, a folder made within Drive A: is forbidden, but a folder made within Drive A > Taxes: has normal permissions. I imagine there is some sort of Terminal work around for this, but I don't want to have to bring up Terminal every time I make a folder. Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.

No suggestions, I'm afraid, but I am having exactly the same problem after upgrading a G5 tower to run Leopard. We have a small network of Macs connected to a G5 XServe running 10.3.9. As Trevor has described, new folders are set as read-only. I can use the server admin software to copy the permissions of the enclosing folder to correct the problem, but have found no other work-around for this.
Interestingly, I have experienced similar permissions problems caused by networked Windows clients creating folders on the XServe. The folders seem to ignore the 'Inherit Permissions' option and are set as read-only to all but the user who created the folder. I wonder if this may be related to running an older version of OS X on the server?
I would welcome any suggestion on this problem too!
Regards,

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