Hangs on login

I am new at this. First full year with a completely OSX environment (9 is finally gone from out site). I am sure I have some setups that could be wrong, but it is working pretty well so far. We have 800 students and I see about 350-400 students a day through the lab. We have 42 education intel imacs and the rest are PPC emacs. They are all running updated 10.4.8 sys software.
For a few weeks I have been dealing with an occasional login where the name and password would dither and then hang there until we restarted. This may happen 10 times a day, but I figured with the amount of students that go through the lab that wasn't too bad. Well yesterday it got worse. Each period I would have 5-10 computers that on logon would go beyond the name and password, meaning that would disappear, then the computer would hang, with the blue desktop screen but nothing else. I waited a bit, but it seems the only resolve was to hold the power button and restart.
Any idea as to why this is happening now, and what I can do to fix it. Thanks so much for your expert advice in advance.

Has anybody got any further information on this issue?
I am experiencing the same problem, I have a network of roughly 80 clients about 12 of which are Intel iMacs and the rest are PPC eMacs. I am using an XServe and XServe RAID to serve up the home directories.
The issue started when I upgraded the network to 10.4.8, unfortunately this was a very similar time to when I added the first Intel Mac to the network so therefore I can not point my finger at the guilty party :0)
I was advised by another Mac fanatic that it could possibly be due to font cache corruption so to try and isolate the problem I rolled out a little app that I found on the net called NHR http://jochsner.dyndns.org/NHR/Welcome.html
What this basically does is stores all cache files for the network users on the client machine rather than in the Library/Caches folder in the users home directory. My assumption was that if font corruption was occurring then NHR would reduce it to set clients. Alas this is not the case! I reported the issue to Apple in early October and am still waiting for a resolve, good job I did not hold my breath! At the time I was told by the engineer that the issue is not a known 10.4.8 issue.
Any more info or help is greatly appreciated!

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