Network home on non-system volume unavailable

Hey y'all,
I had this running fine for the past 2 years, did some dir server reloads and now its broke!
Running the AD/OD triangle 2003/10.4.9 servers and clients. Network homes served from my Dirserver's system drive work as expected, but not when the homedir mount point is on a separate volume ( apple RAID or slave HD ). The share is otherwise accessible via browse from a local acct. Specifically the error reads, you guessed it "...The home folder is located on an AFP or SMB server...".
I read a post in here where the postee found his own solution to be entering the profile path as //server/volumes//nameofothervolume . AD tells me this is totally invalid when i put the double // in the path anywhere other than the beginning, and doesnt work for me when i leave it there anyway. I've tried many profile path configurations: local host name, FQDN, ip, etc...no dice when the share is anywhere but the system drive.
I've done my research on all this - DNS is working according to Bombich's article "Leveraging AD". OD sends out mcx as intended. AD/OD general setup was followed from J. Rennich's AD/OD v2.0 guide. SSO works great for my Mobile users.
Ideas? Suggestions? Thanks.
Anthony

Alright, I answer my own post. The problem turns out to be that i did not have the Windows service running on my xserve. I don't have windows clients hitting that server so I left it off. Apparently it has to be running when you set your user's profile path in AD. Its working great now. Hope this info helps someone else.
anthony

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