Shared folder consistently greyed out in Finder...

I manage a small Mac network for the communications dept of a university. I have several different shared folders set up for different programs/student groups. Anyway, the largest folder (generic Production folder used by the majority of students) shows up greyed out at first when looking for it inside of programs (for example, in Final Cut when looking for a scratch disk or save location). Clicking on another share point or computer and then going back to the folder usually works, although sometimes it takes a minute or so of doing this.
While this isn't really anything more than an annoyance, I would like to know what is causing this behavior and what can be done to prevent it. It seems to only happen with this folder, although I have noticed the homes folder to be greyed out once or twice also. It doesn't happen every time. Is it simply because there is so much data in the folder that it takes a minute for that folder to be read/mounted/whatever for that program (there are LOTS of subfolders and files in that share, as well as the homes folder incidentally), or is there something more going on here?
Running an XServe, managing all iMacs. All systems are 10.6.7, although I've noticed this behavior for as long as I can remember (10.6.5, at least).

The whole thing happened very quickly. It's amazing to me that with all the time spent beta testing this thing that this little glitch was discovered almost instantly by the public. I think it is very difficult to be a software developer these days.
Anyway, I'm glad you got things sorted out.

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