Can't get alias to work in Shared Folder

Hello,
I want to share my Pictures folder with other people on my home network. I thought it would be easy to just put an alias of it in the Shared Folder, but when other people log into my computer and see the alias in my Shared Folder, when they double-click it, it goes to their own Pictures Folder on their own computers.
After I made the alias of my Pictures folder, I changed the name to something else and then dragged it into my Shared Folder.
For the life of me I can't understand why this doesn't work.
It doesn't matter if they log in as Guest, or if I create a user for them and they log in with that. It doesn't matter if they are using 10.4 or 10.3. I'm using 10.4.11.
Other aliases to other folders work fine, just not the Pictures folder.
I don't want to have to copy the contents of the Pictures folder over as it's quite large and I don't have the disk storage to handle that.
Any suggestions?

I changed the permissions to 'read only' for Others and it doesn't work. I even changed it to 'read only' for 'staff' and got the same thing.
Logging in as 'Guest' or any registered user will only resolve the alias to the Pictures folder in that persons own computer.
I made an alias of one of the folders in my Pictures folder and put that alias in the Public folder. Trying to access that alias from across the network gives this error message:
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Logging back in as myself from the other computer and I can access this new alias just fine.

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