Date modified changes when you do not save?

We have recently upgraded our old 10.2 server to a new Xserve with 10.4 server.
After copying the admin files across we have noticed that if anyone opens up a Word document (say) then closes without saving, because no changes were made, then it updates the file modification date? Am I missing a setting on the server? Does anyone else have this problem? We use date modified to search for files so it is quite important.
I have turned off autosave (in Word) feature and tried again so it is not that.
Xserve G5 Dual 2.3 Mac OS X (10.4.3)
MacPro Mac OS X (10.4.8)

I'm answering my own question here, but I've been told on macosx.com that this behavior is a bug that will be fixed in 10.4.4, which should be out this week. It'll be interesting to see if that's true (and it will be interesting to see if Apple leaves this reply up).
Still, that doesn't answer why our shop has one machine that doesn't have this problem while the other nine do. Any ideas? We have some machines running 10.3.9 and some with Tiger, but the one machine that doesn't have the issue is running 10.3.9.
~R

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