Losing File Locations Across Different Users

Hi!
The snow yesterday caused a partner to open an InDesign Book that I was working on, but when she opened a file in the book, the links were broken.
A little background: are are both using IDCS5 on an Intel iMac using MacOs 10.6.6. The ID book & files (as well as graphics) are on a disk we call "X", and the content (DOCX) files are all kept on a drive called "Y". Both "X" & "Y" drives are on the same IP address, and as near as I can tell, are connected the same way from both her and my machine. The server itself is a Windows Server 2008.
Now, ID finds the graphics on both machines just fine. It is the content source on the "Y" drive that gets lost. The link information on my machine says "Y:/content...", while hers says "X:/content..."
Any idea what is causing this issue? A little research tells me that sometimes MacOs doesn't actually save network locations starting in the "/Volumes" folder, but our IT Specialist has checked this and says that both our network settings are the same. We are both logging on to the network from two separate accounts as well. We are also not structuring these files as XML, so there are no attributes assigned to our linked assets.

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