Word 97 - Insert issue

I seem to be having a problem inserting clip art from the gallery into a Word document. The picture holders are visible but not the picture. If I try to drag one of the holders I get a message that there is not enough memory to display or print.... If I clickon the picture itself it disappears. This only happens when word is pointing to a a user folder on a novell 3 file server. Example if I open a document from the server or after I save to the server. But if I open the document from my local drive and or save it to my local drive life is good. This hapens on Win 95 and 98. The file server has over 6 Gb's of free space and has been purged. I have re-installed office and both service packs are installed. ?????