Frame 12 converting relative paths to absolute paths

Hi all,
We recently upgraded to Frame 12 and now have a persistent issue with relative paths to referenced images becoming absolute. These paths do not traverse a drive and so I believe Frame should be maintaining a relative path for these. In most cases -- perhaps in all, although I have not done exhaustive testing -- the problem paths are for images on a master page.
Any idea why this might be occurring and what we can do to fix it? Our docs team shares files checked out from a server, and each time one of us opens a document, it has an absolute path to a location on another writer's computer. We each maintain the exact same directory structure for all Frame/image files, and again, the path to the problem images is local and does not traverse the C drive.
Thanks in advance,
Shelley

May or may not be relevant, but do the affected relative paths need to traverse the root directory of the logical drive?
I seem to recall, in experiments some years ago on FM7.1, that the final /../ needed to be at least one level down.

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