All logins slow/failed, even local server admin won't work...

I've had an issue last Friday which reoccurred this morning concerning logins. Any logins on the network don't work, but take forever to come up with an error message. So I went to the server locally and tried the admin account there, but it hung as well (pinwheel for a few minutes, then spinning gear indefinitely). On Friday, a hard reboot seemed to fix the issue. Today, after hard rebooting, I could log in locally, but upon opening Server Admin, my server's info never came up (showed connected, but no info came up (in the software/hardware/etc area on the first page) and no services were listed. No network accounts could log in at this time (would take a minute and then the generic "Cannot log into this account due to an error").
Did another restart (via the apple menu this time) and everything is working fine for now. I couldn't find anything in any logs to indicate a problem (although it seems several logs restarted with the server restart).
Most clients are 10.6.2, a few are 10.5.8 and one is 10.4.11.

Happened again this morning. Hard restart seemed to fix it, but the RAID with the home folders on it took (3-drive RAID in the XServe, OS is on a separate solid state drive) about 5 minutes to mount.
Most logs seemed to have reset on the restart. There was no server system log at all or a DCHP system.log.
OD LDAP log's first line was "nse error = 2". Everything after that was after the restart.
OD Password Service Error log was full of "Unknown listener exception error." All entries were since the restart.
Couldn't find any other anomalies in any logs (although, like I said, most of them don't seem to exist anymore.
Now, I don't know if it's related, but the green light on the center RAID drive is off, but it seems to check out fine in System Profiler and Disk Utility. The blue access light works. I just figured it's a bad LED, but seems possibly related if the RAID's losing connection somehow (which could explain logins not working and its slow mounting behavior).
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated as this is really bringing us to a standstill.

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