Using final cut on a network SAN drive

We have Final Cut Pro X installed an new iMacs at the college I work at. We installed Final Cut Pro X 10.0.1 under Mac 10.7.1 and added a network SAN drive to store Media files and it worked perfectly. We then upgraded to 10.7.2 because of network problems we were having with the Macs and now whenever you go to add a SAN drive, all the folders on the network drives are greyed out.
We run the Macs using AdmitMac to connect to the network, it's not a permissions problem as the Macs can read and write to the drives via the finder and we definately do have a SAN in our building to store edited videos.
This is causing us a headache because of security the Macs cannot write to the local drives of the machines and only to the network. It's a real pain because we cannot use Final Cut Pro X at all at the moment. Anyone got any ideas?
We have tried with machines without admitmac and it doesn't work. The only thing we can think of is because of the new security implemented in 10.7.2 for network drives, that might have something to do with it. Like I say the major variable between it working and not working is the Mac OS X update.
Can any help with a workaround that doesn't involve creating a DMG on the network? Please help!

FCP 5.0 is the PowerPC version. That and lower. FCP 5.1 is the Universal version.
Where are you storing your media? Your captured footage?
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