InCopy workflow corrupting InDesign documents!?!?!

Greetings,
We're a Mac shop working in a mixed 10.5, 10.4.11 environment using InDesign and InCopy CS3. Each app was recently updated to it's latest version. We have a shared folder on a file server that each user can access and each job has it's own folder on the shared point containing; Assignments, Fonts, InDesign document and any related images contained within the InDesign document.
The issue we're experiencing is that for an unknown reason we receive a "One or more assignment files cannot be found. They may have been renamed, moved, or deleted. Select the missing...." error dialog, although none of the InCopy content has been touched since the InDesign file was last saved. Shortly after receiving the assignment error dialog, the file will resort to the dreaded (Error code: 3 or 5) and will be lost forever! I was able to open and resurrect one file by copying it's contents into another document before the file self-destructed and gave me the dreaded death errors.
We haven't been working with InCopy very long, but to a layman it would seem that after InDesign loses the links to the InCopy content, although nothing changes on our end only in InDesign's "minds eye," the file self-destructs.
After doing some searches, I was unable to shed any light on our specific problem and am hoping the brain trust could provide some insight.
Thanks in advance.
Tim

Spot on Bob! Server was feeling fine, unfortunately the disk directory where the InCopy shared folder resided seems to have taken a header.
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. We wanted to be certain that we hadn't steered astray in developing our InCopy work-flow, but things seem to be golden now.
Thanks again.
Tim

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