[CS3] Clipping Path Options Zero Out?

Hi:
I'm posting this for a couple of users in my studio (haven't actually experienced it myself).
They swear that they occasionally place an EPS and in Object/Clipping Path they select the type: Photoshop Path and choose a path.
Then, for no apparent reason, the type swings from "Photoshop Path" to "None".
I tend to think this is actually occurring when they drag a bunch of images from one document to another (these two operators work on a monthly catalog where a lot of art carries forward). Still, I don't understand why a clipping path option would change.
Anyone else experience this behavior? (Please, no rants on how we should stop using EPS -- we are moving as quickly as possible to psds wtih transparencies, but I've got a ton of images with both "tight to image" clippling paths and "drop shadow" clipping paths so it isn't that easy).
Thanks.
--jon

Bob:
In the studio everyone has Intel MacPros with 4GB of RAM -- up in Creative land, there's still a lot of old 1.8GHz G5s kicking around that just die when the ADs are working with a catalog with dozens of hi-rez images. (The more junior ADs with the crappy G5s get stuck with the print work while the senior guys who spend all their time in broadcast editing suites have Intels they use for email and web surfing -- makes no sense to me). Also, the ADs involve complain bitterly at the time it takes to print a catalog out with hi-rez art.
So, we stage the hi-rez art on a Xinet volume, give them access to the FPO volume (Xinet automatically creates and imbeds a low-rez proxy of anything that's thrown on the hi-rez volume) and that's what they use in their comps. When the comps transition to the studio, we simply re-link the art to their hi-rez versions.
We only do this on the big monthly projects -- everyday ads and direct mail pieces are handled as you describe.
--jon

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