Stoping people working on the same file on RAID

Is there anyway to stop or warn two people that accidentally open and work on the same file on a Xserve RAID. Some applications like Quark and Word have this feature built in. If I open and work on a Freehand MX or Photoshop CS file there is no warning to say that someone may also have this file open. Obviously the last save by either party will overstrike the other person work.
Many thanks
Andy

The Xserve RAID is connected to a Xserve via Apple Fibre Channel card, which is connected to a AIT-3 tape library for backup. This is all running off of a APC smart UPS. The studio workstations are connected via gigabit copper switch. I share the RAID via AFP, but it does not seem to have any options in the sharing section of workgroup manager to enable locking of files when they are open. Two people had the same Freehand MXa file open and were both working on the file independently, one must have saved closed the file down and the other person carried on working. Of the course the first person opened the file again and was shocked to see it was totally different to how he had left it.
I'm running Panther server and most of the studio workstations are still on panther. I'm aware that Freehand MXa is a carbonized application therefore it has not been natively written for MAC OS X.
Hope I have explained myself and it makes some sort of sense.
Many thanks
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