Folders appear twice or more in finder

I'm having trouble with a couple of macs that I just freashly installed Tiger 10.4.6. These machines are all dual 2ghz G5, they connect to the same server, which is a dual 2.3Ghz G5 running OS X server 10.4.6. I have other macs with the same software version with all the same patch applied, including the last security update, but none with the Quicktime 7.1 update. The problem is that they sometime see the same folder twice or more on the server. They can change from list view to icon view to column view with no change on that behavior. If they click on either of the folder, they see the same content, this is basicly a ghost, or a twin, or whatever you want to call it. If you delete one, all folders with the same name are gone (it's a good thing we have good backups, because it happened a couple of times).
I've restated the server and ran Cocktail and repaired permission with the disk utility. Done the same thing on all 3 macs having this problem, and they still see the problem. The only mean to eliminate this duplicate is via an application and saving a document in one of the folder, which will then realise has a double and will appear has just one folder. Some other time, the opposite appends. From Illustrator CS2, if you save as pdf in a folder, it will duplicate it has often has you have exported pdf to it. So if you export 6 different document to pdf in the same folder, it will appear 6 times in the finder! Very annoying and confusing for the users.
Anybody seen this? I've looked everywhere but couldn't find anything.
TIA
Jeff

Morten,
I have since found that the problem is related to the .DS_store files. If you delete it from the parent folder, the ghost disapears. I found a little application that does this and is easy to use, it's called "DS_Store cleaner" and it's free. It doesn't solve the problem for the future though, but it might illimenate any corrupted .DS_Store files on the server.
Another thing I read, but didn't implement because of the side effects is to set the clients to NOT write the DS_Store on the server. This of corse means that they won't have their settings kept when reopening the folder, that's why I didn't implement it yet, still need to see if it's worth it.
Here is the URL from Apple tech note
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301711
Keep me posted
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