Word 2004 - Managed Mac OS X 10.4 Client and OD - can't save documents.

Hi there,
we've got a really silly problem here using Office 2004 for Mac OS X.
But first some infos about our environment:
10.4.11 clients
10.5.6 server
The clients are managed
We use an Open Directory to provide network login (about 1000 users)
Now the problem:
All users in the (OD) group "teachers" (the user folders of these users are located in /Users/teachers/username) cannot save to existing Word-documents! They get the following message:
"can not save while the file is in use by another process"
OD users which are located in other groups don't have this problem and of course local users don't have it, too
What I've done before writing this thread:
Deleted /Documents/Microsoft user folder
tested chmod -R 777 for /Applications/Microsoft Office 2004
tested chmod -R 777 for ~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft
Nothing helped.
Our workaround now is to save every changed file to a new filename but that can't be a longtime solution. Therefore we need your help!!!
Thanks a lot!

Hi,
When the problem occurs, try opening Terminal and typing...
lsof <filepath>
Or drag the file to the Terminl afer the lsof [SPACE], to see what s using it.

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