Can't save word 2010 documents to network folders with READ / WRITE Access denied.

We have several network drives which have the security set up as: Read & Execute, List Folder Contents, Read, Write. Basically, we want people to see what is in the folder and review the documents, but for legal reasons, once it's in these folders we don't want them to be able to edit or delete them, so we DON'T give them: Full control, Modify, or Special Permissions. This configuration has worked great for the last seven or eight years.

We just upgraded our users to Office 2010 this week. No one can save documents directly from Office to any of these drives. They can save the documents to their desktop, then copy it to the drive, but if they are in Word or Excel and they try to save, they get an error. In Word, they get the error "Access denied. Contact your Administrator."

I've noticed that when they attempt to save, Word (or Excel) creates a stub - it creates a file with the name they want to use, which is empty. Then I have to assume that they can't overwrite the file, since hey don't have edit or delete access. It also happens when users try to "Save As" and select PDF format.

Why was this working in Office 2007 but failing in 2010?

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