Clients using Word cannot save docs to their network home folders

Hi, We're experiencing an odd behavior that I think began when we upgraded from Tiger to Leopard server. When a document is opened or started, users go to save and get a message like:"You cannot save this because it is already open somewhere else". Changing the name sometimes helps, but after changing the name five or eight times it becomes hard to tell which is most recent, and this shouldn't be happening.
We upgraded the server and all clients to 10.5.7, and Word 2008 to 12.1.7, but the behavior persists. When it began, the server was on 10.5.6 and the clients were 10.4.11, mostly using Word 2004.
Apparently folks are aware of this and are working on it, but I have not seen any solutions.
Can anyone shed light here?
Many thanks, ...Tom

Also know that this problem with MS Office apps has been seen as far back as with 10.3 Server.
Similarly to Adobe apps, they don't actually (not officially) support saving directly to a network volume.
There has been much finger-pointing between these 3rd-parties towards Apple, none of which helps to resolve matters.
However, as far as Office apps go, look at the top-level of your sharepoint housing user homes, for
an item named:
.Temporary Items
(note the dot)
and if it's not there, create it, via the Terminal:
cd /path/toyourdrive/NetworkHomeSharepoint
mkdir .Temporary Items
sudo chmod 777 .Temporary Items
*Please note that* having a globally-modifiable item (world-writable) is less than ideal in the grand scheme of things,
but should provide a workaround.

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