'Unknown user' problem in Guest account

Hello.
Remember the unknown user problem in the Finder that plagued everyone that upgraded from Tiger? Thanks to someone on these boards' AppleScript, I managed to fix that for my account eventually and get it changed to staff for every file and folder.
However, I just checked out my Guest account in Leopard, and when I do a Get Info on the home folder, the public folder and the sites folder, the unknown user still appears.
What do I need to do to fix this?
Would reinstalling Leopard sort it out by the way? I don't want to do it because it would create countless hassles, but is there a way of reinstalling Leopard that lets me keep my own home folder and applications while killing all the permissions problems?

Does it properly refuse authentication ? Or does the login page stop appearing or something ?
There was a bug with the webauth dying under heavy load, regardless of number of identical accounts used.
One good way for you to check would be, when problem occurs, to create a second backup guest user and see if that would start working. If it doesn't, the account is not the problem.
I'm not aware of any maximum of usage of the same account.
Which 4.2 exactly are you running ?

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