Moving folder on windows server: system password

At work I work on a mac, but our files are on shared windows network drives. There's one perticular drive which causes our mac users problems. It doesn't happen on all folders/files, but on some of them the following happens.
I try to move a folder to another location, but then suddenly my mac asks for the system password. I fill that in and press ok, but nothing is moved. The folder is still in the same location. This only happens om certain folders and the funny thing is: when I try it on of the following days, the problem for that folder is gone and I can move the folder to the folder I wanted it to move. But in the meantime there are other folders which can't be moved.
Support - being not into Mac strangely enough - says it's a Mac problem and I should update to 10.7. But that's not the sollution. Also because colleagues of mine who work in other office don't have this problem. It happens only to me and my colleagues at the place/office where I work. The windows server is at some place else so everything goes via internet.
I keep insisting it's some kind of permissions thingy. Support says it's a Mac thing. What can be the problem and how can I make it clear to them that is ISN"T a mac thing?

By the way, I noticed that with folder I can't move within a SMB share, those folders I also can't rename! I can move it's content but not the folder itself. Not on a Mac but also not on a Windows machine. I've created the folder on my Mac desktop myself. Then moved it to the SMB Share. Then I can't rename it and I can't move it. Have done this procedure several times and most of the time it works ok. But every now and then I stumble on a folder which wont move within the SMB share and in those cases I also can't rename the folder. The problem isn't that there is a file within open by me or someone else. It's like the SMB share seems to think there's some file open while there isn't. But that would be weird anyway, cause a folder can always be renamed even if a file in that folder would be open? Can someone shed some light into this problem? What could cause this bug? I know now it isn't my Mac's fault (which the windows fanboys of Support seem to think). As the folder can't be renamed/moved both on a Mac and a Windows machine. What could be the problem?

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