Leopard Server Admin problem

I'm a bit flustrated with Leopard Server Admin - It gives errors like "Navigation operation cannot proceed" when click from one tab to another in DHCP/Subnets area back to another tab. This is one of the many problems. When I try to add Group in the Firewall, it doen't work, and things dissappear.
All in all, if this is what I have to look forward to in trying to build services using Apple's technology, no thanks.
Comments!

Leopard Server is only in beta so it's normal that there are some bugs...
If are trying to use it in an productive environment you should move to tiger which works well.

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Message was edited by: Trevor Jacques

I'm pretty sure I have since I have a few Mac Mini's on the network with their home directory residing on the server and my Windows users are sharing a few daily use files on the server including a MYOB data file, also our intranet web site is hosting on the same server, not to mention I have 3 print queues there and all the outgoing mails from both of our all-in-one scan to email machines are using the same server. All of these services and users are using their computer as if nothing is wrong, so I have to assume that there is network traffic unless server admin interprets the term "network traffic" differently.

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