Abandoned this issue altogether as nothing was working. I enabled oplocks on both the server and the win 7 using the lanmanserver entry in the registry. Rebooted both server and machine 3 times to ensure it was changed. No luck in getting it to work. I installed synctoy. Then changed the documents reference to a local folder on the C drive. It Stupid that its own inherent process will not work and I have to use another microsoft product to get it to work.
thanks for the thoughts everyone.