Home Directories when installing on multiple partitions

I have a macpro setup with two partitions.  Originally one partition assigned to Snow Leopard.  I log in using a network user (using OSX server) and that user has local Admin rights.  All is well.
I setup a new instance of Snow Leopard on the secondary Partition and logged in using the network user.  This had the effect of using the partition 1 Home directory for this user and I can't get the secondary partition to use itself for storing the users home directory.
The workaround I have is to log in to Partition 2 snow leopard with a local admin user then temporarily rename the Users folder on partition 1.  Next login to partition 2 as the network user, then everything gets created on partition 2 as expected.  Finally rename the Partition 1 Users folder back.  Now I can log in to either partitoin with the same user and have different local home setups.
Anyone else had this or is there a better procedure for setting up multiple partitions ?  The same happens with LION.  I need to keep a snowleoapard partition with all the setup I currently have, but start a new LION partition.  I don't want any cross contamination, hence the requirement for separation.

This was my point. I wanted total separation.  In order to create that separation (when trying to use a network user) I had to temporarily move the existing Snow Leopard Users folder (on Partition 1) so that the Partition 2 OS (either Snow leopard or LION) will create it's own User directory structure.  This is only needed for network users (i.e. ones that authenticate via OSX server).
Once the process of temporarily moving the Users folder, letting the new instance create it's own directories, and renaming back, everything works.  i.e. when I startup Snowleopard all operations are within Partition 1 then if I start LION all operations are within Partition 2. 
When installing new versions of an O/S I like to have control and manage the change so that I know I have a totally working system.  Been doing the same with Linux for years, but Mac OS/X tries to be a bit too clever!

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