Local disk access and sharing changes

I have a Mac Dual 2.3 Ghz G5 operating OS X Server 10.4.6. Among other things I use this server to run duplicates of a local internal hard drive, as well as networked client hard drives, to external Firewire backup hard drives that are local to this server.
Frequently the ownership and sharing attributes of these local external backup hard drives mysteriously change. Through Workgroup Manager, I set the disks to be shared, with certain users and groups having read/write privileges. Later, the read/write privileges mysteriously reset to "none", the owner is changed to "root", and the group is changed to "wheel." Sometimes the "share this item and its contents" box is mysteriously unchecked as well.
Manually resetting the attributes back to the desired state does not prevent the problem from recurring.
I use Retrospect 6.1.128 to automatically duplicate local and network files to these local external Firewire hard drives. I don't know if this is related to the problem or not. The backups run throughout the day.
What's going on and how can I avoid this continual reset of sharing and ownership attributes?
Thank you for any light you can shed on this frustrating problem.

Just out of Morbid Curiousity- If you get info on those Firewire drives- do they have the "ignore Permissions...." box checked.

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After calling the store and confirming my account was accessed and unauthorized changes made, I was told by the manager that an employee had in fact accessed my account and made those changes. I still could not understand how it was possible for the changes to have been made without my password. The activity certainly looked very suspicious and I figured it had to do with commission to the representative for adding the insurance plan. This was denied multiple times by the manager of the store as well as the District Manager. In the meantime I had received multiple emails from We R Wireless in their attempts to "Make this go away"
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As you can imagine I have now been receiving multiple calls from The Director of Retail Operations, Musafa as well as the Director of Operations, Jimmy. They are attempting to sweep this under the carpet and it is inexcusable and unacceptable. The reason for this post is to WARN others who may have made purchases at anytime at a We R Wireless store that they KEEP YOUR PASSWORD and employees are given the Passwords and have made changes to accounts. I cannot believe that I am the only one that this has happened to and I am concerned this is a widespread breech and more importantly is ILLEGAL.
I will keep this Board updated with developments but can tell you so far Verizon has not been very responsive to my concerns but this is unacceptable and I am thinking of contacting the FCC as well as an Attorney. In this day and age of Identity Theft this situation must be addressed by Verizon whether or not this was one rogue employee or not our PASSWORDS and other Information should never be shared nor kept without our knowledge.
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I can only tell you that the Verizon rep from the Fraud department as well as Verizon's legal department contacted me and said under no circumstances are these companies to retain Customer Passwords. As you can see look at the potential for issues as evident in this situation.
As far as the FCC and their responsibilities this is directly from the website
The Federal Communications Commission regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. An independent U.S. government agency overseen by Congress, the commission is the United States' primary authority for communications law, regulation and technological innovation. In its work facing economic opportunities and challenges associated with rapidly evolving advances in global communications
The agency investigates consumer issues such as Cramming which has occurred here if you go to the site you will see some of the recent fines for cramming levied by the FCC and it is a huge issue. A consumer does not get involved in legal fees the FCC is responsible to investigate consumer claims of fraud and regulates the industry. The Attorney General also takes this very seriously as well.
Cramming - Unauthorized Charges on Your Phone Bill
Cramming Settlement for Consumers Announced
Dec. 19, 2014: The FCC, along with the FTC and state attorneys general, announced a $90 million settlement with T-Mobile regarding unauthorized charges - commonly known as "cramming" - on phone bills.
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Kaj_R wrote:
I am trying to Shrink my local disk C (current boot volume) and create new partitions on it. But I am getting a Warning message that If I do so, I won't be able to boot from any volume excepet the the current boot Volume.
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Anonymous UUID:                    B0924435-E795-4CE8-94B2-9233830B2071
Wed Dec 28 14:14:46 2011
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family: 6 model: 42 stepping: 7 microcode: 26
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2860QM CPU @ 2.50GHz
9 error-reporting banks
threshold-based error status present
extended corrected memory error handling present
Machine-check status 0x0000000000000005:
restart IP valid
machine-check in progress
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IA32_MC0_STATUS(0x401): 0xf20000c000010005 valid
MCA error code:            0x0005
Model specific error code: 0x0001
Other information:         0x000000c0
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IA32_MC1_STATUS(0x405): 0x0980000000000000 invalid
IA32_MC2_STATUS(0x409): 0x0000000000000000 invalid
IA32_MC3_STATUS(0x40d): 0x0000000000000000 invalid
IA32_MC4_STATUS(0x411): 0x0000000000000000 invalid
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IA32_MC6_STATUS(0x419): 0x0020000000000000 invalid
IA32_MC7_STATUS(0x41d): 0x0020000000000000 invalid
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IA32_MC8_STATUS(0x421): 0x0020000000000000 invalid
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11C74
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com.apple.driver.AppleIntelProfile    85.1
com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor    1.9.4d0
com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch    66.3
com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC    1.59
com.apple.filesystems.autofs    3.0
com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyHIDDriver    122
com.apple.driver.AppleHDA    2.1.3f7
com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyDriver    2.1.3f7
com.apple.driver.AGPM    100.12.42
com.apple.kext.ATIFramebuffer    7.1.4
com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient    3.5.9
com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl    1.0.26
com.apple.driver.SMCMotionSensor    3.0.1d2
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com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver    1.2.1
com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin    4.7.5d4
com.apple.driver.AppleLPC    1.5.3
com.apple.ATIRadeonX3000    7.1.4
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