Folders open without toolbars, windows to not refresh, other issues

I am having a problem on my Mac G5 Dual 2GHz, it is running OS 10.4.11
For the past few days when ever I open certain folders on our network volumes the finder windows always open without a toolbar and there are a variety of problems with these folders. When I scroll or open a subfolder that folder doesn't refresh or gets all fragmented (visually) like there are thirty little copies of the folder on top of each other. If I close the window or change the view it corrects itself. Also if I navigate to said folders in a program (InDesign) it sometimes crashes the program.
Our network has not changed in anyway, the only new thing in our office is that a few computers started using Leopard.
Our network is using xinet, appletalk, various Dell servers running NT.
Any guesses what is going on?

Hi jhc13, and a warm welcome to the forums!
Could be many things, we should start with this...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc that came with your computer, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
*Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.
5. Select your Mac OS X volume.
6. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then Safe Boot , (holding Shift key down at bootup), use Disk Utility from there to Repair Permissions, move these files to the Desktop.
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist
Or we could try deleting those silly hidden DS_Store files first...
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10478

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