Files and/or folders becoming locked on Mac Server 10.3.9

Files and folders cannot be reopened on the respective server share when the creator or inclusive user tries to reopen a folder or file, they see the file / folder as being locked.
The server is set to inherit permissions.
All of our students go to a share "student" where they can plop their files.
Teachers, who have a different user name and group, also should have access to the student share's files and folders after they log in.
We have many files that seem almost to lock themselves, a user saves a file, then at another computer, or even the same one, at a later time tries to reopen the folder or file and its locked.
Propagating the permissions from the Server Admin tool on the server seems to fix the issue, but what could be causing this to happen in the first place?
We have Windows 2000 systems, XP systems, Mac OS 10.3.9, !0.4.7, and 10.4.8 all touching these respective shares.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
PowerMac G4 (2.6) AGP Graphics   Other OS   Running Mac OS 10.3.9 server

Well I am getting the same problem crop up again on the latest version but if I remember right I worked round this back on 10.3.9
Try enabling ACL's on the partition/volume your shares reside but don't use ACL permissions for some weird reason this worked for me in fact if I then disabled ACL on the volume I could reinstate the problem turn on again and it worked so was pretty easy to see.
Hope it works for you

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