Briecase Doesn't work

My laptop has WinXP Pro. Our Server is Win2K Adv Srvr.

I compressed a directory to conserve space on our hard disk for some
volunteer work I do. Soon thereafter I found that when I added directories
from the compressed directory to My Briefcase, the names of the directories
would show up with no files. I heard somewhere there is a problem with My
Briefcase and compressed files so I uncompressed the directory on the
server, but that didn't solve the problem.

I created a new Briefcase on My laptop - that didn't work. I rebooted my
server - that didn't work.

Any ideas ob how to get this to work?

Thanks

Chuck