Getting mobile accounts to actually go mobile?

Hi there,
I just added my first laptop to my school's OS X Server network, and have run into something with the mobile account setup that I can't seem to solve...
I've created a mobile account for myself on the laptop, so it's syncing my network home directory to the local drive when I log on and off, while on the school network. Everything works as it should, which is great.
Except here's the problem: When I take the MacBook home, and then log in with that user, it actually goes ahead and locates the server at the school (it's got a public IP address and a DNS name, after all), and then starts happily syncing everything over my internet connection.
This is... not what I expected -- I was hoping it would be smart enough to know I'm not on the local school net, and let me work "offline" with the account, then re-sync when I return to the school. I certainly don't want it mounting all of my shared volumes and stuff from home; it's painfully slow.
So: How do I get it to act as an offline mobile account when my network location changes? Can't find anything like this in the docs...
Thanks!
john

Heh. Yeah, and tried switching it on and off a few times, too.
I think I might have found the problem, but I think I might have also borked my ability to play with it tonight -- in the Advanced Rules section in the firewall settings, there were a bunch of "deny" rules in there that weren't enabled... I guessed that those needed to be turned on, so that it would deny everything by default, but then allow the stuff I want through (set on the other page).
Except after enabling those, I now can't connect to the server with ARD any more. Oops.
The good news is that at least I also can't mount AFP shares from here any more either.
The bad news is that when logging into the MacBook now, with my mobile account, it still starts up the Home Sync process on login (after spending about 35 seconds doing nothing after entering the password), and then hangs there for about 2 minutes trying to contact the sync server before giving up and continuing with the login properly -- this is what I was hoping to avoid.

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