Why saving documents on an AFP server sometimes results in damaged Pages docs?

We used to work with some AFP shares on a Mac OS X server, to open, edit and save Pages, Keynote and Numbers documents flawless.
Since the new generation of this OS X  Apps appeared with Mavericks, all goes "bonk": Many documents appear as folders after saying on the AFP share and cannot be reconstructed in any way.
Copying documents from the AFP share to the user's desktop and replacing them later after edit is a no-go, because users forget to perform this step and it's extremely inconvenient.
Is there any solution for this open/edit/save problem on remote shares?

Thanks Peter,
we use a generic Mac OS X server running under Mavericks. Pages 09 is no alternative because our users are highly mobile and use docs via WebDAV in iOS Apps too.
What we want: opening and saving iWork docs like in earlier versions directly from the AFP share. It does work, but you never know if the doc will survive the latest edit or appear as a bunch of useless data on the share.
The download/upload is a solution that simply doesn't work in a modern workflow.
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