Issues with OD Home folders

Hi All,
I've been fighting with a server for over 2 days. The problem is, I'm finding it impossilbe to locate home folders in a non-standard directory (other than /User)
The silly thing is I've done it before. It was working fine. I've installed new drives to store the users home directories on.
Here's the details:
I start with a new machine with OD, AFP & DNS configured and running. I can create a home folder in the default /Users directory and access it fine. But when I try to change the location of the Users Home folder it won't work. A strange thing is that I can't delete the initial Home user location configuration (in the Users Home settings in Work Group Manager) I can open the intial config and modify it but I can't save those changes. If I select OK after making changes, it creates a new set of preferences but the initial config stays and CANNOT be removed or edited (these buttons are greyed out).
I CAN use one of these new configurations to create a Home folder which appears in the directory on the new HDs. I can also access these via AFP on a client machine and if I log in with the users details have full access to the contents of the Home folder located on the server.
When I try to log into the Home folder I get the same message stating there is a problem and informing me that the Users Home Folder is located on a AFP or SMB share.
Any ideas?????

Hi Ralph,
In the past i have never had to set the users individual home folders to Auto Mount. As you know, to do this involves the individual sharing of the Home folder it's self, rather than simply sharing the "Users" folder which contains all of the User Home folders (unless there's another way I don't know about).
I read somewhere (it's all a blur or blogs at the moment) about using Kerbos only so I changed the AFP settings to only use Kerbros Authentication (instead of the default setting "Any Method" but now I can't access the user home folders through the finder as I receive the message:
"Connection Failed
The Authentication Method required by this server can't be found"
What would cause the client to give this message. It appears the client won't use Kerbros for some reason. (NOTE I'm trialing using only OS 10.4 without applying any upgrades to see if this works, could the lack of the upgrades be causing this?)
I have a side question: Is the required Authentication method for accessing server based Home folder Kerbros?
It seems the more time I spend on this the less ground I'm making.

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