File Count keeps changing in Folders

Greeting All,
I have a few Macs running Mac Os 9.2.2 and they connect to a Mac Pro running OS X Server 10.4.7. The problem I am having is that if there are more that say 75 files in a folder that I open to view, the files in that folder keeps jumping and the file count keep alternating. In other words, selecting a files from the folder is nearly impossible as the files keep moving in the folder. If I connect from a mac running OS X to the said Server running 10.4.7, I do not get this problem. Nor do i get the problem if I Connect the macs running OS 9 to a server running Appleshare Ip Server software I don't get the problem. Thanks

Hi Mike B,
I tried as you suggested but the 326 or so files in the folder keep refreshing themselves. I've also noticed the file count go up to 352 and then return to 326. It's like there are invisible files in the folder or something like that. and as I said, it only does like this when I connect from a Mac running 9.2.2. Any ideas?
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