Photoshop Problems on Leopard (Server Running Tiger)

Hi,
Due to a theft we have just replaced all our machines except for the server, this means that the G5's are running Leopard and the server is running Tiger. My problem is that in photoshop cs3, when I save a file down to our server I'm not able to open it again as photoshop throws up the message:
'Could not complete your request because it is not a valid photoshop file'
This is happening in 90% of cases and has cost me several days work. Would I need to update my server to Leopard or is there a quick fix.
Thanks

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
First off, your profile says something of an incongruity, which is that there is no such thing as an Intel G5:
http://discussions.apple.com/click.jspa?searchID=10781403&messageID=6221656
Now if you said Intel and G5s in your profile I wouldn't be concerned about it, but troubleshooting the Intel and G5 Macs often can require different procedures. Migrating from G5 to Intel also often presents a problem with the Migration Assistent, unless you follow these steps, and perhaps that's where you problem resides:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=715
Secondly, since the question is regarding Mac OS X Server, I suggest posting to this forum Mac OS X Server v10.4 and earlier Print Services. Someone there is more likely to know the answer to your question than here. I'll ask a moderator move this thread to the appropriate forum.
Message was edited by: a brody

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I used SuperDuper to make a backup image of my OS X Server boot drive, which is one logical volume on two physical disks.... in a RAID 0 configuration internal drives on the XServe. The backup is a single disk in a firewire external Granite enclosure. I booted from the cloned copy and ran for a while just to make sure the clone was good. No problems yet.
I then booted the Leopard Server CD and was able to do an UPGRADE install on the external firewire drive image. This process went smoothly with no problems.
Unfortunately, Leopard server is another story. The upgraded system isn't doing well: I couldn't get Apple Remote desktop from my laptop to connect to Leopard nor was I able to get the IMAP email server to work. Client machines just sat and "spinned" trying to make a connection. Had to monkey around with permissions to get 10.5 web pages working using Safari running on the Server. These pages worked perfectly on 10.4 with the same permissions. When trying to access the web pages from a client on the same subnet, was unable to connect. Web services were running fine and the firewall settings seemed OK so I'm not sure what is going on. So I powered down the external drive and will wait a and think about trying the upgrade again. Kind of wasted 4 or 5 hours today hoping this upgrade would be smoother.
I'll probably start over and do a clean install and export and import settings to 10.5. Not a particularly fun prospect.....
Leopard client was a simple process to move from 10.4 to 10.5. Leopard Server looks like a lot of work and hassle to me at this time.

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