subdir problems with 2.5.69 and samba 3.x

I've tried both the debian devel and cvs pulls of samba and upon upgrading my kernel to 2.5.69 samba no longer allowed access to subdirectories of my shares. Windows gives the error "Directory does not exist" yet all files in the share directory in the directory supplied by "path" are accessible. This is even true for guest only services with share security so I'm not sure what's going on here. The subdirectories are not symlinks and the permissions are world readable world searchable. Is anyone else having this problem or has this occurred before so someone can point out what i'm doing wrong. I'm not subscribed to the list so cc all replies and i can supply any further info required.

This all worked prior to the kernel upgrade and samba was not changed.