Can't login to Mac OS X Server (10.3.x)

We have a server that will not display the login screen. It loads all of the services (and they are working) ie: AFP, FTP and WWW but we can't login it never displays the screen. We have tried to repair perm. and checked the drive. We tried to re-install the OS from disk and it wants to reformat the HD. We also have a Macintosh OS X Server 10.4 that we tried to load and it wants to reformat the HD before install also. We have started to copy the files off of the server and are planning on formatting the HD and loading 10.4 Server from disk. Any suggestions as to what may have caused the problem would be appreciated. We don't need this problem again.

Solved it by deleting the user and creating a new one with the same userID.
Maybe it occured because I marked the "user has to change password after first login" box when resetting the password but didn't yet allow him to do so in the webpages menu?!?

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Now I can't login to the server website anymore (for editing our wiki or using profile manager etc.), neither with the new one nor with the old one.
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