Finder changed creation date on my picture files after upgrading to 10.5

maybe somebody on that forum can help me. I installed Leopard on my Macbook pro. it works ok a bit sluggish not as smooth as the old tiger. But my biggest problem all my pictures (wedding photos of clients) the creation date in finder has changed to Dec31 1903 9am or 8am. Anybody has a clue how i can reset that or are all creation dates are lost

Welcome to the forums... unfortunately SMB issues are not fully mainstream.
Anyhow, I have scanned the change log of files touched by the update (searching for SMB - original list courtesy of Rixstep). This yielded:
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.smb.server.plist
/private/etc/smb.conf
/System/Library/CoreServices/SmbFileServer.bundle/Versions/A/Resources/DesktopDe faults.plist
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.smb.server.preferences.plist
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.smbfsloadkext.plist
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/smbd.plist
/private/etc/smb.conf.template
/System/Library/Extensions/smbfs.kext
/System/Library/Extensions/smbfs.kext/Contents/CodeDirectory
/System/Library/Extensions/smbfs.kext/Contents/CodeRequirements
/System/Library/Extensions/smbfs.kext/Contents/CodeResources
/System/Library/Extensions/smbfs.kext/Contents/CodeSignature
/System/Library/Extensions/smbfs.kext/Contents/Info.plist
/System/Library/Extensions/smbfs.kext/Contents/MacOS/smbfs
/System/Library/Extensions/smbfs.kext/Contents/Resources/load_smbfs
/System/Library/Extensions/smbfs.kext/Contents/version.plist
/System/Library/Filesystems/smbfs.fs
/System/Library/Filesystems/smbfs.fs/Contents
/System/Library/Filesystems/smbfs.fs/Contents/Info.plist
/System/Library/Filesystems/smbfs.fs/Contents/Resources
/System/Library/Filesystems/smbfs.fs/Contents/Resources/English.lproj
/System/Library/Filesystems/smbfs.fs/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/InfoPlist. strings
/usr/lib/sasl2/smb_lm.so
/usr/lib/sasl2/smb_nt.so
/usr/lib/sasl2/smb_ntlmv2.so
/private/var/db/smb.conf
Items highlighted in bold could be relevant.
Have you checked that your entry in nsmb.conf is intact? If it is, could it be overridden by a change to one of the other conf files (or a plist)?

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