What you might want to do is open up Access with the workgroup actually specified - this is also handy for when you have multiple workgroup files - and if you have different versions of Access (eg both 97 and XP), it often reverts back to the standard mdw.
So - you should open access using the /wrkgrp switch - for example:
Code:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office XP\Office10\MSACCESS.EXE" /WrkGrp "\\server\share\workgroupfile.mdw"
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