Network User List Not Updating

I manage a lab of ~30 iMacs which are bound to an Open Directory on a G5. The client computers set so that their login windows show only network users accounts in a list. However, they don't seem to be getting the actual list of network users from the server. Rather, in /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist there is a NetworkUsers array which contains the users listed by loginwindow. No matter what this array is never updated, not since it was originally created it seems. Furthermore, if I delete the plist, loginwindow reverts to name/password fields and never gets the list of network users. Clients can still log in, and MCX settings are updating correctly, it's just that loginwindow can/does retrieve the network users to display in the list. I've tried refreshing preferences, rebinding the computers, changing the computerlist settings on the server, deleting the MCX cache...just about everything I can think of short of clean installing the clients and/or the server (which, ya know, I'd really rather avoid . I've seen several other topics in the discussions that sound similar to mine but all seem to have slight variations and none seem to be fully answered so I'm sure many would appreciate any help on this topic. All of the computers are running 10.4.4.
PowerBook Al 15 1.5GHz Mac OS X (10.4.4)

I had already checked (search based) that as I had that with 10.3 and 10.4 server.
I did however solve it today, but am not 100% sure on what I did.
Here is what I tried.
I was trying to add restart to the applemenu, and did so and the restart appeared, but was then trying to look for ways to remove the logout so as to force the users to restart rather than logout but could not find it. I looked in the forced com.apple.finder.plist which was under the details options in preferences rather than the finder icon, and since there was no key in there I removed it from the computer list prefs and the pupils groups prefs. I then looked at the finder prefs from the icon in system prefs on WGM and noticed that I had blue dashes meaning some set some not. I cleared them be setting them as I wanted and then double checked but noticed they were back to dashes so did them again by doing never then apply and then always and resetting them to as I want (I think that is was I did) and then checked and they were ticked or unticked and no dashes. I then just happened to log on with a client to see if the applemenu was fine and noticed that it no longer showed the restart so had to log off upon which the list appeared.
I think that one of the com.apple.finder.plist in either the group or computer list details prefs was the problem.
I hope that it is okay and will stay like this, until I relook at to why the restart is not happening and knowing sods law will solve that but get no list again.

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