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Message: [QUOTE="rayiron, post: 6665036"] Thanks for the reply. I appreciate your feedback. Basically, users do not permanantly store files on these computers. They are used by the entire student body of about 200 students. Our servers are Windows 2003. What I figured out how to do is to use the Active Directory plugin to do the authentication. When you bind to the Directory, you have the option of creating local profiles or not. I chose not to, so basically all the users log in as user and share the folders on the server. There are no local files at all. I haven't had any problems with this with any other programs or preference sets besides MS Office X (what we're using). The problem seems to arise from the fact (stupidly, in opinion) that you cannot choose the location or name of the "Microsoft User Data" folder. If you could, I would simply create a separate data folder or Entourage identity for each machine. It seems that the first user to start Word gets possesion of the identity and locks the file so that subsequent users cannot access it. (If there's a way around this, I would love that). I love this setup, it works perfectly except for MS Office. I am not all that familiar with scripting for this platform and don't have time to fool around with it, so that option didn't really enter in. I don't want to go back to having local profiles as it becomes a nightmare to keep all the computers identical. Any ideas.... [/QUOTE]