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>  We've experienced this, also. The problem only exists in the "root"
>  directory of that shared volume. All of the subdirectories will
>  store the files' locations just fine. We have not figured out how
>  to solve this problem and have basically concluded that it's just a
>  bug.

Actually, you are probably experiencing something which is in the
spec.  When I asked about this quite a while ago David Hornsby noted:

> The AFP spec contains this little peculularity in that to make the finder
> info stick, you have to be the owner of the volume in question (so that
> the owner bit is set in the permissions block, Ref: Inside AppleTalk 2,
> page 13-88, lower right).
> 
> So, my guess is that if you mount the volume as the user who owns the
> directory, then things should work OK. In addition, CAP 6.0 has the ability
> to set this stupid bit by having the directory setuid bit set, ie:
> 
> 	chmod u+s volname
> 
> so others can save the finderinfo on a shared volume.
> 

This helped my problem, I hope it solves yours (and the original
poster's).
       Peace,
          dNb
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