Cannot Open Some Public Folders on MacBook

I have several users using my macbook. Each user has their own user account. For user accounts created before "Personal File Sharing" was switched on, other users (except for root) cannot open the "Public" or "Drop" folders. Public and Drop folders for user accounts created after "Personal File Sharing" was switched on may be opened by all users. Both the pre- and post- "Personal File Sharing"-switched-on folders have the correct permissions settings.
The only work-around I can think of to ensure every user has Public and Drop folders that every other user can open is to delete the pre-"Personal File Sharing"-switched-on user-accounts and create new ones.
Any other suggestions? Is there some other setting I need to change?
Help much appreciated.
MacBook   Mac OS X (10.4.9)  

When you say "cannot open the "Public" or "Drop" folders, do you mean that the folders are available in the list of shares but cannot be opened, or that the folders aren't available at all? I'm not sure if this is related to your problem, or what accounts for the different behaviours, but it seems in "Tiger", new accounts are often created with an empty 'sharedDir' property. This property in the user record specifies which of the user's folders is to be shared for non-user access in AFP, and usually has a value of "Public". The "Public" folders of users without this property set will not appear in the list of available "shares" that appears after connecting to an AFP server.
To see what the current value of 'sharedDir' is on a given account, try opening "/Applications" > "Utilities" > "Terminal.app" and entering the command below, substituting 'username' with the user's "short name":<pre>nicl . -read /users/username sharedDir</pre>
The expected output is 'sharedDir: Public', but if it is just 'sharedDir:' or 'No such key: sharedDir', then that would explain why those users' "Public" folders aren't available for personal file sharing. To set the value to "Public", make sure you are logged in to an "admin" account and try this command:<pre>sudo /usr/bin/nicl . -create /users/username sharedDir Public</pre>
Substitute a user's name as above, and enter your "admin" password when prompted (your password will not be visible as you enter it - just press the <Return> key after you are done).

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