TestStand 3.1 and Perforce 2005.1

I am using TestStand 3.1 with Perforce 2005.1 integrated into Teststand. When I try closing teststand or saving a workspace it freezes and crashes. Also, another user created a workspace and when I try and modify or save it it asks for HIS password even though he doesn't have it checked out or anything. Has anybody used these two together and have any advice?
Thanks,
Brian

Hi Brian,
There are some issues that have been introduced with the new versions of Perforce and we are working to fix them in future versions. I am not sure if this is a result of the newer version of Perforce or if there may be something else causing this behavior. I was hoping that you could give me detailed information of what you are doing step by step as well as what you see happening when you are having the trouble. The more detail you can give me, the better I can try and reproduce this behavior here. We are trying to get all the cases that are having conflicts with the newer versions of Perforce so that we can fix these conflicts in future vesions.
Thanks,
Caroline Tipton
Data Management Product Manager
National Instruments

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