Mobile accounts not syncing at logout

Hi guys,
We are experiencing some synchronisation issues when attempting to use mobile accounts for the first time at our school.
Synchronisation is only occurring at login and not at logout even though all options are selected under Rules>Home Sync in group preferences. Manual and scheduled syncing works ok.
Points to note:
User accounts are hosted in AD with OD supplying managed preferences.
Home directories are stored on the mac server (Windows domain member) and shared/automounted via AFP.
The mac clients and server are running 10.6 and are fully up-to-date.
Has anyone experienced this issue before?

Hi guys,
We've managed to get sync at logout working. Here's how:
-Add "/System/Library/CoreServices/ManagedClient.app" into the WGM Group Preferences Details tab.
-This adds additional preference manifests, one of them being "Home Sync".
-Modify the "Home Sync", "Always" settings by adding any item to the "Managed Preference Sync Items" array. We added the path to some necessary email config files stored in ~/Library.
Doing these steps, for some reason, enabled syncing at logout. Hopefully it'll work for you too.

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