Worth it to upgrade to 10.6 for iCal/file sharing?

We run a dual quad core 2.8Ghz XServe with a 4 drive eSATA DAS for file sharing as well as iCal. We've topped out at around 40 concurrent users with 5 shared calendars and 7000+ events combined across the calendars.
Is it worth it to upgrade to 10.6?
Here are our unsolved problems:
1. File sharing used to be samba only due to the need to allow PCs access to the shares but Adobe products were locking up saving over the network to the shares so the Macs in the office now use AFP while the PCs still use samba. One of the updates appeared to have reported fixing some samba issues but I've found that Google searches of user experiences appear to vary.
2. iCal pretty much maxes out all 8 cores with 50 users accessing the shared calendars via iCal/ThunderbirdPlugin/Sunbird. At this point some users start experiencing problems syncing the calendars and eventually very few people end up with calendars that are properly synced. No one uses the web interface and no one has personal calendars. No one has access to the calendars outside of the office or VPN.
3. The other iCal problem, as I've discovered, is that settable permissions on the calendar really only apply to the web calendar.
So I can set "Allow group members only to write to these services" and "Allow authenticated users to view these services" and that really only means for the web interface, and not the iCal/CalDAV interface. So if a user authenticates, but is not in the group calendar, they cannot get the calendar data. Since the calendar is under a group rather than a user they cannot be added to write permissions on the calendar (which I'm not sure work outside of the web interface either).
Does 10.6 solve any of this? If we're going to max out at <= 50 users because iCal's python driven performance is so horrible we might as well setup with Google Enterprise Apps and use their calendaring system.

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