File disappears just by pointing at it in the Finder

Since we installed Leopard on some macs here, we're sometimes experiencing a strange phenomenon.
An Adobe Indesign file suddenly can't be selected anymore in the Finder. When a user tries to click or select it, it seems to disappear. Then when we try to select this same file on another (Leopard) machine, there's nothing wrong. The file is still there and can be selected and opened.
The user who's experiencing the disappearing of the file has to restart, then the problem is over for a while.
It only happens sometimes on different (Leopard) machines. But it's irritating enough. It also seems to happen only with Indesign (CS3) files.
Our Apple server operates on Tiger.
Hope someone can help us out here! Is it a bug?

My company is experiencing the same file disappearing problem with Helios UB. This is only happening on Leopard. Files would disappear as you click on them. My work around is to highlight all files in the folder and do a info one it. This would catch all the files that tend to disappear. Go outside of this folder and back again. The files that disappeared would show up again. But this time, they will not disappear. I can verify by highlight all the files in the folder and do a info lookup (<command+I>)
Does anyone have a real fix for this bug?

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