Lion Server Mobile accounts for Macbook users

Hi All,
I'm looking for a 'Best Practice' when setting up mobile accounts for Macbook users who just want to be able to use their machine away from the office.
We DON'T want to sync anything, just create a mobile account on the Mac (a bit like a domain profile on a PC).
I understand that this can be configured through workgroup manager in preferences for either the machine or the user account.
What should the mobility settings be set to? Obviously the Account creation box is ticked but what should the 'Create home using' settings be ?
Thanks Trappers

I figured out how to delete the user from the command line.
I used Remote Desktop to send as Root: dscl . -delete /Users/userID
Where userID is the user's shortname.
You could also log in locally and use the terminal to send:
sudo dscl . -delete /Users/userID

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