afp file path issue on tiger server (10.4.9) with excel & word files

g'day,

we have just changed over to an xserve (running 10.4.9, HFS+ with ACLs) and are experiencing the following problem with office 2004 excel & word files only - surprisingly powerpoint files are not affected:

all excel and word files without spaces in either file- path or -name open just fine, however all files with spaces in file-path or -name generate the following error message...



for the above we used the following example file:
-rwxr--r-- 1 daniel daniel 59904 May 17 16:40 IT Schedules.xls

and it gets slightly more confusing if we place the file used above in another sharepoint which is setup in exactly the same way and the same file with spaces in its file-path & -name opens just fine...?

we have also noticed that strangely the complete file-path is being displayed in files that do open (because we have filled in the blanks... ;0) - something we had not seen before.



any ideas on what could cause this or advice on how we could get back to opening our mainly excel and word files straight from the server without having to change our folder structure would be greatly appreciated.

thanks in advance,

ds.