10.9 Server Filesharing - Duplicate connected user

Fresh install of 10.9 Server - Did not migrate settings from previous server install *just because*. User environment < 10 people. We use file sharing, server time machine, and CardDAV. No need for anything else.
From the beginning, had major problem with filesharing borking saved files for all osx users connected over samba. Lovely. Had no idea how to fix or why osx clients weren't connecting over AFP, so I partitioned a section for the occasional bootcamp user and turned off samba for the rest of the network drives.
Now I've got Kerbos authentication failures for the network scanner that sends files to a SMB dropbox share point setup on the server. A server restart fixes this, but restarting file sharing does not. On top of that, I've got persisting permissions that seem to manifest in screwed up Numbers files (09', the version that doesn't suck) I can open and edit files, but copy/paste doesn't work nor does it allow you to add a new table unless you copy the file to the desktop. Then no problem with the file.... otherwise no other finder permissions problems - messed up huh?
When I go to try to figure this out this morning - now I see this.
So - Seriously? I've got one user with over 300 duplicate filesharing connections. This stuff just used to work despite my lack of experience. So Apple Community looking for advice - My choices are:
1. Hire a professional to fix this. (where do I find one? Last time I brought in a professional from a local authorized repair shop to fix a previous permissions problem, their answer was, "yeah, ACL's don't work right, you should just use POSIX". Yeah, thanks, I already knew ACLs weren't working - that's why I called you)
2. Rebuild the server from the beginning. (what went wrong the last time? Since the last time I setup OSX server, the only thing different this time was that I didn't use workgroup manage to create user profiles because it seemed like it was built into the Server app. So if I rebuild should I go to yosemite or downgrade to Lion, which seemed to work fine?)
3. Fix or live with the problems (Any ideas on how to fix, Apple Community?)
4. Quit. (anyone have a job opening in my field that pays 2x what I make now and doesn't involve relocating or screwing around with this stuff? didn't think so)
Message was edited by: sgladfelter

I do use 3.2.2.
I turned off SMB to my main share point, and left it on for the share point the scanner (which uses an unknown version of the SMB protocol) is setup to drop files on. The scanner worked for a couple of weeks and then randomly quit - in Console I see Kerbos authentication failures when attempting to connect. A server restart seemed to fix this problem a couple of times, but it has since quit and I've sort of let this problem go.
A restart also fixed the duplicate connections, and so far hasn't cropped up again. I'm still getting Kerbos authentication failures for my CardDAV accounts and my SMB connections, as stated above.
I haven't gone to yosemite yet since my current setup is working. The $20 upgrade doesn't phase me. I'd gladly throw $200 down if it worked as well as it did in snow leopard. As it is, I feel like I may as well be running linux for the amount of time I've had to spend in a shell the last couple of months.
Still debating on going back to Lion. The thing that ***** about this is that when I was considering the downgrade, I realized that since I installed Mavericks on the same machine, albeit a separate drive, the apple recovery utility will now boot into Mavericks instead of Lion as it did before. So now I've got no way to re-install Lion since disks weren't included. I can still use the old installation, but that is plagued by problems of an entirely different nature (prompting the update in the first place).
I sure this whole environment we have now is intentional, but I don't see how its beneficial to the user. Its analogous to the iDevice marketplace - when you update an app and it gets worse or doesn't work at all, you have no way of going backwards to a previous version. This wouldn't bother me if you're talking about a free app. But when I pay for an app and the developer adds in advertisement down the road or breaks it for my iOS version (I don't update my phone either) - well lets just say that in the ideal "user bill of rights" we should have the right to decide whether to use a newer version or go back to the old one.

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