Xserve stops opening apps

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The new phenomenon here is that our Xserve will stop opening applications after the server has been on for a few days. They just bounce on the dock a couple of times and then give up without explanation. If I restart it, it works fine for a couple of days and then starts doing the same thing.
The only thing I can think of is that it might have coincided with the recent upgrade of Retrospect, but I haven't been able to test the theory because it's tough for me to get significant downtime with the server.
Filesharing doesn't seem to be affected. The disk directory is squeaky clean according to Disk Warrior and there are some recurring "permissions differ on..." permissions issues, but from what I can tell, they're not the culprit.
Sometimes an app won't open initially, but if you try again in a minute or two, it then opens. Some apps won't open at all once the problem occurs. Can't quite identify a consistent behavior except that the overall problem comes up consistently after the server runs a couple of days.
I'll have to restart to get a crash report or other useful info, so I'll post that when I can kick everyone off the server. Meanwhile, any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
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