If i neglect to create a mobile account when first signing in, finder bar doesn't display

I have a fairly large office environment with hundreds of Macs that are connected to our Active Directory managed domain.  Sometimes a new user will try to log in to a machine for the first time but if they neglect to create a mobile account, the finder bar doesn't display properly at the top of the desktop.  It will appear briefly when something is clicked on the dock but will disappear again as soon as the desktop or anything else is clicked.  It doesn't even appear when Finder is clicked on the dock.  What's more, when mobile account isn't created, the user account doesn't appear in System Preferences> Users & Groups so a mobile account can't be created after the fact, nor can the user account be deleted in order to start from scratch.  This will happen regardless of the OS version, between 10.6 and 10.9. The only solution I've found is a complete rebuild of the OS on the computer in question which I can't do every time someone doesn't know to choose creation of a mobile account.
Has anyone else run into this?  And if so, what solutions have you found?
Thanks.

Hi Russ!
Apparently you already configured your account but you don't have nor the key or the password. You can get the password in the [https://account.services.mozilla.com/forgot following link] but you would need the Sync Key to sync your device to the rest of your devices.
If you don't have the Sync Key the best thing you can do is to reset it, by deleting the previous account and creating a new one with the same user. You can perform this tasks from your [https://account.services.mozilla.com/ account dashboard].

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