Classic won't open at all for User accounts...

i'm having a problem with getting users to open Classic when i have new accounts set up in 10.3.9. the Classic window will open, but stops about 7/8 of the way down the progress bar and just hangs all day. this happens whether i've got a separate volume partitioned for Classic or not. i've looked at resetting permissions for the applications folder, for the Classic volume, for the entire user volume to no avail.

anyone have any ideas or suggestions? i can offer more information about the workstations if you need it, but all are running 10.3.9 on the old mirror-door 1.25GHz G4s. when i set up the user, i don't modify anything out of the ordinary except for the accounts are under the Managed tab.

 

i'm running Mac OS 10.3.7 Server...