How can I move the user home folder from server to the mac

I have a mac mini which i use for OpenDirectory, DNS and email. It is not a big installation it is for my wife and I.
My wife logs in using an network account, and the user folder is saved on the mac mini. This gives me a few problems.
a. If the server is upated and restarted, my wife has to relogin, or sometimes reboot the imac to get acces to the email etc.
b. Having the home folder on a mac mini is causing the imac to be very slow
c. Itunes can't synchronize to her Iphone. Connecint it gives her a message that synchronization has been turned off, and if i try to turn it on I get an error message saying somthing about shared access to the user folder.
I do not use a network account and have none of these problems.
So I have decided to try to put her user folder on the imac instead of on the server..
But how do I do that?
I still wan't her to use the network user account, but the user folder should be on her imac.
Kind Regards
Henrik

I do not think you can move migration assistant for this situation.
The mac mini is a osx snow leopard server, running openDirectory, DNS and E-mail, so its not like she is logging into the server.
Her imac is bound to the OpenDirectory and she uses an openDirectory network user account to log in on her imac.
But the user folder is saved on the server, which is very nice if you have a bigger server with faster disks, and more mac clients to log into.
But in this situation she only uses her imac, and the performance of having the user folder on the server is not good enough, as well as the other problems I have with itunes sync etc.
So I do not think it's a job for the migration assistant.

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