Anyone experience incorrect modification dates with 10.4 server?

Maybe this is a bug, maybe not, but I have received numerous reports from coworkers of a problem with the finder's 'modification' date for files hosted on 10.4 servers (running 10.4.3 now) in two separate locations. This behavior was not occurring prior to the 10.4 upgrade and it is now happening both via AFP and SMB from 10.4 and 10.3 client machines.
The way this occurs is when a user simply wants to view a file, a word document for example, they open it, view it and then close it without making any changes (there is no prompt when they close to 'save changes'). In the finder the file will now have it's 'modification' date updated to the time the user closed the file. However, the file was NOT modified when it was closed and so its modification date should have remain unchanged. Also of note, the 'last opened' date remains blank. This does not occur with every file on the server (it largely appears to impact Word, Excel and CAD files) but it is sufficiently easy to replicate that it has inevitably started to cause a great deal of confusion.
Is this something that other users have experienced? Is there a setting tucked away in AFP to correct this or is it a bug that hasn't been addressed? I may have missed it, but I am surprised I've not seen any other posts about this.
Thanks -- George
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I have also seen this problem, and heard of it at other locations. It seems to have started for us after upgrading the file server to 10.4. We have clients running 10.3.9 and Office 2004. The modification date change only occurs when the user is not the owner of the file, but has read access via "group" or "other" privileges. There is some traffic in the microsoft mac word newsgroup about this issue (from August 2005!), but no solutions. Anyone with an idea of how best to complain to Apple and Microsoft about this issue is more than welcome to chime in.
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.mac.office.word/browse_thread/th read/eaf91f9ff80a4a49/bf412677a14e75d4?q=modification+date&rnum=1#bf412677a14e75 d4

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