Logic Sample Editor Functions and Network Home Areas

Hi,
I'm an IT technician at an FE college so do not know much about Logic. We have network home areas (Snow Leopard Server). We have a problem in the music department where students can't access the Sample Editor functions (they are all greyed out apart from Change Gain). Now if I log on as a network user and create a project on the local HD everything is fine. Move that project to my Network Home Area Desktop and the functions are greyed out! I have checked file permissions and the network user has full access to all files in the project in both instances.
Any help much appreciated.
Dom.

Dom@work wrote:
I'm an IT technician
Oh. And I thought that you, if anyone, could sort out this issue. Yes, Logic does not like networks at all.
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