(null) users listed in Profile Manager

While configuring Lion Server, I created and reset Open Directory several times as I experimented with different configurations. As you can see from the attached image, it appears that this action has created (null) users in the profile manager user list. These users do not show up in Open Directory when viewed via Workgroup Manager. Does anyone know how to get rid of them? Thanks in advance.

Hi Mike,
And my problems have gotten worse because I ran the WipeDB tool and I have destroyed the Open Directory several times in an attempt to remove the null users, but now when I rebuild everything and start from "scratch" the Profile Manager page crashes regularly.
I even went so far as to rename the host name on the machine to see if the new Open Directory that it created would emerge in a new structure, but no luck.
The "Null" users no longer say "null null", now their entries just say "loading..." and they never load, probably because there is nothing TO load, just old dead record pointers somewhere in the Profile Manager.
I've hunted through the file system in command line trying to figure out where any of this data might be stored, but I haven't found anything I feel comfortable deleting yet. I'm facing a reformat of the disks and a re-installatoin of the OS if I can't figure out how to fix this.
How can I clean this up? Anyone have any idea?
Thanks,
Ralph

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