Gnome panel issue in solaris 10 - help

Hello ,
I have here solaris 10 (137111-01) on sunblade 1500 machine ( total 50 machines). There is a strange problem appearing since this week, when a user logs into JDE(gnome DE) then users gets logged in but gnome-panel does not show anything. If PID for gnome-panel is killed, gnome-panel restarts but again it is blank ( grayed out)
The above issue new and only for nis+ users whose home directories get auto mounted from solaris nfs servers. Let me say here that it worked fine until now for these nis+ users but now. They are forced to use common desktop env which they don't like.
Local user such as root or any other local use gets the gnome-panel with start menu and everything works fine for it.
I have tried restarting nis+ services as well as nfs.server service and rebooting the nis+ clients which have the issue but still hasn't helped it.
Somehow I managed to set panel preference to Normal (from Restart) and then killed the Panel PID. Started with truss,
Here is the truss o/p.
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=thvekw7VAnother thing observed is when the nis+ user logs into these workstations, they can't do ssh to any machine , it hangs and CTRL C also doesn't kill it. They have to close the terminal itself to kill it.
Gnome -panel grayed out -screen shot : http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/5835/gnomepanel.jpg
Additional message from /var/adm/messages on workstations,
Mar 30 16:23:23 workstation26 pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: devinfo0
Mar 30 16:23:23 workstation26 genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] devinfo0 is /pseudo/devinfo@0
Mar 30 16:23:24 workstation26 pcisch: [ID 370704 kern.info] PCI-device: sound@8, audiots0
Mar 30 16:23:24 workstation26 genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] audiots0 is /pci@1e,600000/sound@8
Mar 30 16:23:25 workstation26 gdm[450]: [ID 944828 daemon.warning] gdm_slave_session_start: /home/username is not owned by uid 821.@ workstations,
#id username
uid=821(username) gid=500(group)
# ls -ald /home/username
drwxr-xr-x 67 username group 4608 Apr 7 12:55 /home/usernamePlease help !!
Thanks

I am experiancing the same issue. User homes are on nfs automount. No NIS is set up currently. The problem appeared after the home directories were mounted with nfs3. Previously they were mounted as nfs4. But even newly created users get empty gnome panel.

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