Duplicate entries showing up in "Manage Open Files"

We are seeing an odd phenomenon with file sharing on our Windows Server platform. I'm posting here because I haven't seen anything quite like this in my Google searches.
Off and on, when a user will try to access a file stored on the share of our file server, the file will open in "Read Only" format. Usually this has to do with multiple users having the file open at once, but by the time the user experiencing the
issue would get around to telling me about it, I couldn't find any indication of a conflict in "Share and Storage Management" and they would be able to open the file after I prompt them to try again.
I've done my due diligence by checking for leftover locking files on the share, but have not seen any, so up until this point I've just chocked the issue up to happenstance.
However, I finally managed to catch the problem in the act. A user was showing me something on their computer when the file they tried to open showed up as "Read-only." I opened the share manager on our file server, and saw only that user had opened
the file. I asked them to close the file and try again. They did, and got the "Read-only" version again. I refreshed the view in "Manage Open Files" and saw this:
When the user opened the file, it looks like the file server thought the user opened the file 5 separate times all at once. 4 instances of the open file are marked "Read" while only one is marked "Read, Write."
Has any one seen this behavior before?
Thanks for your help,
DSell

Hi DSell,
From the screenshot it is a doc file. So please first check if there is any temp file created in the folder e:\users\nk\documents\signs. This including tmp files and files with no extension.
Shaon,
In response to your reply, I'd like to point out that I already mentioned looking for temp files and didn't find any:
"I've done my due diligence by checking for leftover locking files on the share, but have not seen any, "
Specifically this means I was on the look out for files matching the open file in the users folder starting with a "~$". In each instance, the temp file was not there. I would
also like to point out again that the file was completely closed, there were no entries of open files in the file manager before the user tried to open the file once. As soon as they tried to open it once, 5 entries of the open file showed up immediately in
the File manager. Very strange.
The user indeed has permission to read and write to the folder. I have not seen the issue occur for non-Office files, but I will report as soon as I see that behavior.

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