LENEW
The Issue that you are referring too happens in some installations of PDMWorks 2004 but not all (apparently only a small percentage of the Solidworks community have experienced these problems). Our company had the same issues; we even had AutoCAD prints that would disappear in the vault after they were checked-in with references added.
Our VAR (GoEngineer) were aware of the issues and advised that we install Solidworks 2004 SP2.1 and PDMWorks 2004 SP2.1 (which we did), now the applications are working correctly and the issues appear to have been rectified.
I case anybody has not upgraded yet, service pack 2.1 looks to be a great improvement over the previous versions. Solidworks is finally starting to behave in a much more stable manner.
John Cole
Sr Mechanical Engineer
Impco Technologies, Inc.