Managed Preferences Have No Effect

I've been trying to figure this one out for a while. I have a lab of Macs running 10.3.9 that were originally set up to authenticate to our PM G5 running Tiger Server. The eMacs running 10.3.9 had preferences controlled by the server such as having the System Preference restricted from users.
Well I ran into some trouble getting the machines to authenticate on day and removed the eMacs from the managed lists altogether. However, now I cannot even get the System Preferences to be restricted for local managed users on these eMacs.
If I log into one of these eMacs as an admin and look at the account settings for the non-admin local users they restrictions for the System Pres are in place (not allowing the local users to modifiy all system prefs) but when the local user logs in they have full access to the System Prefs.
I have tried reparing permissions and the disk but that did nothing. There must be a file somewhere that I can delete to return the managability of these local accounts. Any suggestions?

A couple of suggestions...
Are your client machines still being managed as WGM guests?
Maybe they haven't been removed properly from OD? To check this:
1. go to WGM > Preferences > check the 'Show all records...' box.
2. Click on the inpector icon in WGM
3. Choose Computers from the pulldown menu
4. If the comuters you don't want managed are on thet list you should delete them.
HTH,
b.

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