Home directories not fully created - AD with OSX server

Hope this makes sense.
I'm setting up a network in a school. We've an Xserve running Mac OS X Server 10.6.4. So that students can move seamlessly between our windows network and this, we've extended the AD schema and have the Server bound to AD. Clients are running 10.6.4, bound in a triangle with the Mac Open Directory and AD. So far, so good, all works fine.
I've been able to set preferences and network home paths with no major issues and scripted to get around problems with using iMovie. However as we've been awaiting some replacement hard drives to set up a new RAID, the home paths have been set to the share automatically created for Users - so afp://SERVER/Users
Now our new hard drives have turned up. The RAID is setup and working. I've created a new folder to store home paths - just to test with one user initially. I shared this path 'StaffData', enabled it for automount via afp, in protocol I've enabled guest access for afp. I copied the permissions set for the original /Users directory we were using. In WGM I've changed the home path for this user to afp://SERVER/StaffData, saved, then rebooted the client.
When I then login with this user it created the top level home directory - afp://SERVER/StaffData/USERNAME - and then a subfolder for /Library and /Desktop. No other folders are created (Music, Movies, Photos, Documents are all missing). I'm able to get it to generate Music when I load iTunes, but the same doesn't happen for iMovie or iPhoto.
I'm guessing its a permissions issue? When I switch the home folder back to the server's /User directory it creates all the home folders without any issues. Can anyone point me in the direction of a solution to this?

Yep, I always get an error "The home directory could not be created because an error occurred". Always had that, even on the original /Users share that worked.
Kind of found a way around, have written a script to run at login that checks to see if Pictures, Movies, etc folders are present, and if it doesn't it just makes a new directory with that name. It's a bit of a bodge, but seems to still work. Would still love to have another proper fix eventually, but for the time being it's solved the immediate problem I had!
Thanks for your advice.

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I have configured my server to be an Open Directory master. I have no other Open Directory replicas/Servers running.
I have set up and configured DNS. It appearts to be working correctly and can resolve my server name to the local IP (10.1.1.X) and give me a fully qualified domain name.
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