Outlook 2003 Public Folder Favorites Sync Issue

[Lance]

We recently moved from Outlook 2000/Exchange 5.5 to
Outlook 2003/Exchange 2003. I have a question about a
potential problem regarding Public Folder Favorites and
permissions. Our remote users work "offline" 95% of the
time and "Send/Receive" when necessary. We've put the
public folders they need in their "Favorites" and set them
to synchronize every time they dial-in. We've setup
permissions so they have the ability to see, create and
edit anything in the folder but they cannot delete
anything. This is the same setup we had in the old
environment. For some reason our remote users are able to
delete any items in their "Favorites." The items aren't
deleted on the server, however. If they deleted by
mistake we can't find a way to get the item back into
their "Favorites" without removing the entire folder and
adding it back from scratch -- a time intensive procedure
with some of our larger folders. Are we missing a setting
someplace? In the old environment the Outlook client
would prevent them from deleting anything -- even while
offline.

Thanks,
Lance