Sharing Icon Greyed Out

Hello, last week we went to setup a new share on our Tiger server 10.4.2 and we found the "Sharing" button in WGM to be greyed out. No matter what we did would get it back. We authenticated, rebuilt permissions, rebooted and nothing seemed to make a difference. I've seen other references to this problem on the forum with no response actually solving the question. Any ideas? Our next step is to run the 10.4.3 upgrades, could this make the problem worse?
Thanks

Can you please confirm wether or not you can edit users? The user list will not be grayed, but if you select a user, the editable options will be. I suspect you have some Open Directory policies that are not being met by Workgroup Manager. Confirm for me first though.
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