10.6.1: Can't resolve FQDN when connecting via WLAN / Airport Base Station

Hi everybody,
after hours of work and having read many helpful topics in this forum (and other) I've successfully setup a Single Signon Environment for my home office. It's a dual core macmini server running 10.6.1 and only mac clients.
The server is connected via switch to my airport extreme base station. This airport station uses PPPoE to connect to my ISP and it has the DHCP service running, handing out the clients' IP addresses. The server and the switch have all static IP addresses.
My issue is the following:
Whenever I connect via wifi or vpn using my MBP, I am not able to "bind" to the server (via system preferences : users : login setting) using the FQDN. The error is "can't resolve address. -2200" Instead it only finds myserver.local - and then I am able to set up my wifi connected client.
However, when I set up the client with the .local address I am unable to get a kerberos ticket for my users. The ticket viewer says, that it can't resolve the address for myserver.mycompany.private
I was able to get afp or ical to work on my vpn or airport connected clients when I used the server's IP address instead of a domain name - but only with kerberos turned off and with other problems.
I've heard that if everything is configured right, the server should show up in every clients' sidebar with its FQDN and NOT the bonjour name. Right now it shows only the bonjour name - even on the clients connected via Ethernet.
The other strange thing is that when I log into my client system I still have to authenticate with ticket viewer in order to get my kerberos ticket. Usually Single Signon should work with the login window, right?
I really don't know what else to do. I double checked my DNS settings and everything seems ok. I entered the FQDN of the my server in the airport stations' DHCP settings as "LDAP server" - nothing changed...
Do I need to use the server's DHCP service instead of the airport station's DHCP? And if I do this, how to I turn off airport's DHCP? It does not seem to be possible when connected via PPPoE to my ISP.
I am unsure what to do in order to get things to work. Anybody out there who can help?

Hi Davidh and thanks for posting!
I had 3 DNS entries in my client's network settings - one was the server and the other 2 were from my ISP. Removing the ISP's DNS entries and keeping the server DNS IP solved my kerberos issue. Wow!
I'd never thought that it won't work with more than the server given as DNS entries. I'll need to check this with my iPhone later, because I had a similar issue with that device yesterday when trying to connect via VPN.
Thanks very much!
Still one question:
The sidebar of my clients still don't show the server's FQDN - but only its bonjour name. Is this right? I read in another forum that the client's sidebar should show the FQDN if everything is configured right.

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