Getting rid of phantom home directories in WGM

My users have home directories listed in Workgroup Manager that they are no longer using, but the buttons to edit and remove these entries are grayed out. Even when I try to make a new user with no preset, these entries show up in the list and cannot be modified. I have configured a new share to automount for home directories, and unshared and deleted the old folders, but WGM still insists on listing their paths. Restarting AFP and the server doesn't help.
How do I convince WGM these folders don't exist?
Thanks!
Mitch

These are automounts you had set up for your user homes, you need to delete the records for them.
Using the "All Records" (bullseye) tab (enable it in WGM Preferences) delete the outdated entries under 'Mounts".
- Norbert

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