Deleting/Moving a mobile client account?

Hello -
I've changed the topic of this question after reading the entries here that matched 'move mobile client', now I'd like to know not only how to move a mobile client to a different server, but potentially how to delete one and go back to local home directories.
Two weeks ago I began my second annual attempt to install Mac OS X Server, this time using 10.6 with the 10.6.3 Combo. One of the reasons I've pursued Server is to try the Mobile Accounts feature.
I completed configuring a few days ago, set up my laptop as a mobile account and synced it to the server. I realized immediately that the tool would not support a 30+ gigabyte home directory and disabled syncing while I continued testing other features.
Yesterday I blew away the lab installation and started over following a failed attempt to re-name the server to match the production name of the machine it may someday be installed as if it ever moves into production.
After a day of building the machine back up from scratch I attempted to connect to it with my laptop, which had been configured as a mobile client of the now dead and long gone lab machine. Thinking that I might simply tell the client that it was now paired with a new server appears to have been naive in the extreme.
Now I would appreciate any pointers to documentation that details the procedures for both un-pairing a client account to a server and returning control of the horizontal and vertical to it, and possibly re-pairing it to a new server (just in case it makes me really mad again and I decide to sell it into slavery).
I can't seem to find this in the manuals.
Thanks,
Scott.

Ah. Simple if you know where to look it seems.
System Preferences->Accounts->Login Options->Network Server->Edit
My faith is restored.
So little time. So much hair...

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