Cannot Reassign Virtual Desktop in Windows Server 2012 Personal Managed VDI Collection

I have a Personal Virtual Desktop Collection on my Windows 2012 server with 3 desktops created.
For testing purposes, I assigned the 3 desktops to admin users and everything was working well. I need to re-assign two of the three desktops to the actual end-users now that they are setup the way I want, and tested. I go through Server Manager - Remote
Desktop Services - Collections - Virtual Desktop and select the virtual desktops, then select Assign and enter the new AD User. It does not error, and now shows the right user assigned.
But, when I try to remote desktop for these two users, it logs into the actual Windows 2012 server, and not the virtual guest on that server.
I've rebooted the server and guests a few times, and cannot seem to get this working for these two users.
Any ideas?
Tom Drought

Here is the whole sequence of events for a "normal" connection, do you see these?
Log Name:      Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-SessionBroker/Operational
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-SessionBroker
Date:          5/14/2013 2:45:10 PM
Event ID:      800
Task Category: RD Connection Broker processes connection request
Level:         Verbose
Keywords:     
User:          NETWORK SERVICE
Computer:      rdvh.corp.contoso.com
Description:
RD Connection Broker received connection request for user CORP\user1.
Hints in the RDP file (TSV URL) = tsv://VMResource.1.VDI-BB
Initial Application = NULL
Call came from Redirector Server = rdvh.corp.contoso.com
Redirector is configured as Virtual machine redirector
Log Name:      Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-SessionBroker/Operational
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-SessionBroker
Date:          5/14/2013 2:45:11 PM
Event ID:      801
Task Category: RD Connection Broker processes connection request
Level:         Verbose
Keywords:     
User:          NETWORK SERVICE
Computer:      rdvh.corp.contoso.com
Description:
RD Connection Broker successfully processed the connection request for user CORP\user1. Redirection info:
Target Name = VDI-BB-1
Target IP Address = 192.168.1.108
Target Netbios = VDI-BB-1
Target FQDN = VDI-BB-1.corp.contoso.com
Disconnected Session Found = 0x0
Log Name:      Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-SessionBroker/Operational
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-SessionBroker
Date:          5/14/2013 2:45:15 PM
Event ID:      787
Task Category: RD Connection Broker manages resource (target/session) related information
Level:         Verbose
Keywords:     
User:          NETWORK SERVICE
Computer:      rdvh.corp.contoso.com
Description:
Session for user CORP\user1 successfully added to RD Connection Broker's database.
Target Name = VDI-BB-1
Session ID = 2
Farm Name = VDI-BB
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