No Drop Box in Several users public folders

Hi All,
I'm running a largely mac based school network with 2 Xserves, One Snow Leopard Server and one Leopard Server which handles all the file sharing.
Several Users have come to me lately (About 6 I know of, out of approx 900) with no dropbox in their public folders. They had one previously but they seem to have disappeared. THe users with the disappearing drop boxes are all hosted on the Snow Leopard Server. And access their files with either Mac OS X Leopard, Windows XP, or windows 7.
My question is, is there a way to restore their drop boxes (I know I can go in as Root and do it, but im not sure if there are special settings etc on the drop box that wouldnt be applied if I did it manually)
Also if anyone knows what could cause the dropboxes to disappear that would be useful so I can prevent it in the future
Thanks in Advance
Timethyfx

Snap And like you said, I have both machines set up with exactly the same settings. Another bug or something I'm doing wrong? Please reply if you figure out the solution.

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