Migrating users from SBS 2003 to OSX leopard Server

Hello All,
We are preparing to migrate away from SBS2003 to an OSX server setup.
Currently all clients are mac with a few bootcamped PC's onto the macintosh hardware.
We will be using kerio to migrate the mail off from exchange.
My question is if there is a way to move the current users home folders on SBS to the mac server ala replication, i heard you could make the mac server a DC and then demote it to standalone ? is this possible or does everything have to be 'built from scratch' im assuming of course EVERYTHING is reliant on OSX leopard servers DNS being setup correctly from the get go.
Any help / tips/ cavaets / would be a huge help.
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