Permissions being reset on shared files

Hello,
I'm sharing some files with 2 other uses in my office (all running 10.6) and having an issue with permissions being reset. The documents are in my Public folder, file sharing is turned on, and the users accounts they use on my computer which are given permission read/write permission via the Sharing options in the system preferences.
If I start with a file giving all users read/write access then one of the users on another machine writes to the file the permissions seem to reset and no one else other than the individual who just wrote to the file is able to access it until I reset the permissions on my machine again.
This is quite frustrating... any ideas what is going on here?
Thanks!
Jacob

Here's a MacWorld article that may help.
http://www.macworld.com/article/49831-3/2006/03/tcopermissions.html
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