Can't stop synchronization, and other issues...

I can't get my mobile accounts to NOT attempt home directory synchronization. It's a feature I've never used, will investigate at a point later in the future, and cannot figure out how to turn it off. It seems like some 10.4. server update started home directory synchronization on my mobile users against my will, just as Apple turned off the ability to "simultaneously login" for accounts (though they left the checkbox to enable the function. Guess it's just there for show) and I was using that.
All of my mobile users are getting synchronization errors, but I can't figure out what is triggering the attempt to synchronize in the first place, nor where the silly Mac wants to put the synchronized files. All I can see is that it's trying to synchronize to "Network". Nice and vague.
Additionally, when a desktop user wants to check out a laptop for the weekend I have to enable mobility for that account. When the user returns the laptop on Monday, I turn off mobility. Now that user gets two problems: their account remains mobile on the local desktop machine (which I have to clear through Netinfo Manager) even though I've unchecked everything possible in Workgroup Manager. Secondly, that desktop user now gets that same synchonization errors the laptop users get and I can't get it to stop.
Something seems broken, but I'm stumped as to what to do. If the user's system (laptop or desktop) believes it needs to synchronize to some remote location, where is that information kept and how can I modify it? Is there a list of remote synchronization points in my Workgropu Manager that I can modify to keep my mobile accounts from even trying to synchronize? How can I ask a user's system, "To what computer are you trying to synchronize yourself?" If it's synchronizing, it must be trying to copy the local files to some other place, but where?!~
17 Powerbook - 1.5Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.4) 2GB RAM, Adobe CS2, Xcode 2.2

In Tiger, all mobile accounts synchronize by default. WGM allows you to change the current settings only. To turn off sync, manage both background and periodic sync "Always" and then use a empty table of sync items. Syncing is thus stopped.
To stop syncing an unmanaged mobile account, delete ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.homeSync.plist and ~/Library/Mirrors/*.
Simutaneous login prevention is really a per-home directory feature so it does not work for mobile accounts. See http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1733887#1733887

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