File Size Grows from a few mb to over a gb

I work for a high school and in our Mac Labs our newspaper students use Indesign. The files that they create are stored on a Windows file server that the students access using SMB.
We've experienced a situation over the last few issues where a student will work on a file and save it. Once saved it is only around 4mb-6mb in size. However, the same student or another student will then try to manipulate the same file only to find that it has grown to over a gigabyte in size causing Indesign to be unresponsive. We'll then have to save the file as a different name and remove the old file. Photos are not large and it's pretty basic usage of Indesign.
My question is this: Does anyone else have this problem? If so, is there a remedy or process that we could follow to alleviate this problem?
Basic info:
Newer iMacs running Snow Leopard
Indesign CS4 Design Standard
Files are stored on Windows Server 2008.
Any help is appreciated.

This may not be the problem, but repeatedly doing a plain save can cause terrific file bloat. All of the od change history is retained, but useless, when the file is closed. Doing a save as periodically forces a complete rewrite and purges that junk.

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