[Samba] weird permissions issue

[JJB]

Version 3.2.4-4.3-2042-SUSE-SL11.0

Do I need to file a bug report for something that used to work but 
stopped about 1 month ago? If something stops working, that usually 
isn't a bug, its a config problem or a data corruption problem, isn't 
it? In other words, isn't this most likely the fault of either myself or 
another admin, or a hardware glitch as opposed to something wrong with 
samba itself?

I don't think we have done any updating to samba services or SUSE Linux 
in recent history, unless it happened automatically, which I don't 
believe is the way we have it configured. The only changes I've made in 
the past year or so were to add the Recycler to the users share and to 
create the DOC_IN share.

 - Joel