Permissions Issue saving to Home Directory on Server 2008 R2

I have a lab of 10.5 iMacs connected to our domain through active directory. When the students log in, their network home directories (hosted on Win Server 2008 R2) mount on the desktop. The students are having permissions issues when saving to these directories. For some odd reason, the students can save files created in Word, but not files created in Excel. We have separate shares on the same server for our teachers - Hand In and Hand Out. The students are unable to copy files from the Hand Out folders to their home directories because they get the same permissions error message.
Last year as a work around to this issue we gave the students full control of their home directories. We do not want to continue doing this because then the students can change the permissions on their home directories. The standard in our district is to give the students "modify" control.
We have 10.4 macs set up in this exact same manner and we do not have any permissions problems. This only seems to affect the 10.5 macs. Thanks!

Hi Rolf,
I understand the confusion.
So the answers to your questions first.
It was suggested to me to get CR2008 but I heard 2008 will not be supported much longer, is that correct?
Patch support ends for CR 2008 on December 31, 2015.
If I install 2008 will I use a different reference in my application instead of 11.5.3700.0 ?
Yes. Crystal Reports 2008 is version 12.0 product and all CR 2008 assemblies are of 12.0 version. So your references would be 12.0
What needs to be installed on the 2008 server and what will the IIS setting be (running as 32 bit)?
.CR 2008 runtimes (of appropriate SP) should be installed on the server. CR 2008 only has 32 bit runtimes so make sure IIS is running under 32 bit.
Morever,
Few things to do while migrating on dev machine.
- Open the project in either VS 2005 or VS 2008.
- Remove all earlier references (11.x).
- Assign new CR references (12.0) and recompile the app.
- Not to forget, upgrading your reports to CR 2008 by opening them in CR 2008 designer and checking if everything is working as expected.
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