Multiple guest users plus wierd behavior

Hello,
I'm having strange behavior in my afp logins - home folder house icon disappears, some users launch a file - it bounces and then it never launches, some share-points come up without mounting (only alias shows), sometimes a user takes 10 minutes to log-in, very long beachballs when opening a folder, etc. These behaviors are intermittent...
I see that in my AFP connections the following:
Name Status Address Connected Idle For
<Guest> Normal machine.name.private 04:57 00:15
<Guest> Normal machine.name.private 03:21 00:15
username Normal machine.name.private 00:15 00.00
The number of <Guest> users from the same machine varies. when I log out of the machine, the <Guest> users are still in the AFP list on the server as being logged in from that machine.
I don't know whether the behavior is related to the <Guest> issue or not, so I have the following questions: is the above status for APF normal? If not, how do I correct? If not, what else may be causing my unreliable behavior?
The server is 10.4.7 and the database is fully kerberized. Services running include: AFP DHCP, DNS, FTP, NFS, Open Directory, and Web.
Thanks,
Dave

I just noticed the same behavior on a client's new dual 2ghz G5 Xserve.
The AFP process spikes the CPU near 80% or so from time to time, though the server's not swapping out too much at all. It has 2 gb of RAM.
AFP looks like it hangs out at a reasonable load most of the time, but it does show a high number of threads in use. I tried setting the maxThreads key from 200 to 300 in /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleFileServer.plist. My client is going to restart AFP to see if that helps at all.
Regardless, what might cause the multiple authenticated/guest logins per IP? Has anyone else seen this?
Thanks for any tips you may have.

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