Generic Icons on server, others not having problems

At work we have 3 Macs that are all hooked up to the same server. All the Macs are similar, 2-G4 Dual 1.25 GHz and 1 Imac Intel. Out of the 3, only 1, a G4, gets generic icons for Quark, fonts, Illustrator, and photoshop files. Both of the G4s were set up at the same time with the same specifications but when logging onto the server, one "sees" the icons as normal where the other "sees" them as generic.
Is there a setting I need to change on the one Mac that is showing generic icons?
Any suggestions would be helpful?
Imac G4 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

I also noticed this problem today. And trying to replace the images doesn't help.
Any word from Apple as to why this is occuring would be great.

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