Open Appleworks - File is locked or in use

Our students are using Appleworks 6. When we came back to school this year and tried to open the application, several students got this error message: The file is locked or in use.
We've gotten this error message in the past when trying to open an Appleworks document, usually when students are opening a file I have put on the server for them and too many are opening it at once. We've never gotten it when just trying to boot up the application.
Any ideas what might be causing this and what the fix is?
Thanks

I could only find a terse explanation of it...
About AppleWorks File Repair Utility
This utility is designed to fix AppleWorks documents that have become damaged when the documents are saved from AppleWorks 6 running on a Mac OS X 10.2.x client to an AppleShare or compatible file server.
It's purpose seems very narrow in scope.

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