New install of Leopard 10.5.8 install

Hi,
Can anyone answer this question?
I have recently taken over the responsibility of looking after an OS X server that is running Leopard Server v10.5.8. The server was originally set up pretty badly in my eyes, the main problem being DNS, as the server does not respond correctly internally to its domain name. It can only be accessed using a browser via its internal ip, so quite a lot of the services are not working correctly or not at all. The plan is to get all services running properly for all sorts of things like calendaring and web hosting!
Not only is the DNS a BIG problem, but also the server was configured with everything being on one partition, so that if anything major should happen, not only does the OS go, but everything else along with it... my long term plan is to back everything up, erase and start with a fresh install over two partitions on the RAID rather than One, so that if the OS has problems on its own partition, this can be repaired if not reinstalled again without causing a problem to the work data.
After that bit of background information, back to my main question...
I have been working on an example server set-up for the past few weeks, running scenarios of which I am glad to say I have cracked everything from DNS to web hosting (although, virtual web hosting is eluding me at present, but i'll get there in the end!) with everything resolving backwards and forwards with ip names and FQDM names etc, HOWEVER and here is the crunch line..
After everything was working fine I decided to erase and wipe my example server set-up and start again (the scenario of a complete 'melt down") and now no matter how many wipes/erases and reloads of fresh/clean OS Server installs, (even zeroing out the hard drive on format) updating to v10.5.8 with all the relevant security updates, I can not get the Mail to work.... I don't quite understand how a clean set of software can not not work first time of initiation.. I would understand if it was tweaked in some way, then at least I could put it down to me changing some kind of setting, but its just the main details entered. Initial ip configurations, domain names, DNS etc, the basics to just get the Server up and running and resolving itself backwards and forwards and of course the Mail service.
I did find something regarding the fact that if you erase/zero out a drive something has to be reset in terminal, which I did, but that didn't work!
Oh, and after every update to the OS to bring it up to v10.5.8 I have restarted the OS from another drive and repaired the permissions on the drive that is running the Server OS!
I would greatly appreciate any comments or suggestions, especially if anyone else has experienced this kind of thing happened before. Not to mention this does not 'bode' well for what I have to do in the future with our main server!
Oh, and the last reinstall was last night after no matter what I tried the mail kept reporting an error of something to do with the users data storage set lower than the size of the mail messages. Unfortunately I can't remember the exact message... but lets just say that the eMail that it was trying to deliver (sent from an external eMail account) was less than 1K into a users mailbox that had nothing in it, it was completely newly installed!
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