Save menu options are dimmed

Hi all,
I'm working with a set of students who have run into a bit of a problem saving a project they are working on in Garageband 3. I wasn't in the room with them when this came up, so I have limited info. about the circumstances surrounding this event (or lack thereof). But they are very experienced with the software.
So, they are creating a podcast. Very simple project so far--a couple of tracks of voice recording and one with music. They'd been able to save as they were working. Then, when they were ready to finish for the day, all the save options (Save, Save As, Revert to Saved) under the File menu were (are) grayed out. Keyboard shortcuts didn't work either. Computer is not frozen for hanging. And we did some editing this morning just to make sure there were actually unsaved changes that needed saving.
We are using eMacs running Mac OS X (10.4.11) and that computer has about 84gb and change available on the hard drive and we've emptied the trash.
Help? and thank you!

Tough one, it could be a file got moved, deleted or messed up somehow while working on the project. The only thing I can think of is to restart and maybe repair permissions. Of course you'll lose everything from the last save on or maybe more.

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