OD Question after installing 10.8 Server

Hello all,
I am working with Apple support team on this matter but I thought I would reach out to the community as well since the Apple guys seem a little stumped.
Here is the situation.
We have been using 10.6 Server on our XServe for a few years now. Aside from AFP crashing fairly often (causing our network users to not be able to connect to or loose connection to their home folders), it has been working very well.
Earlier in the year, I worked with Apple tech support to help resolve the AFP problem and the final solution they came up with was to upgrade to 10.8. Well I took it a step further this summer and put in a new hard drive and did a fresh install of 10.8.
I got DNS set up and working, I then enabled Open Directory and did an import from an archive I made on the 10.6 system. So far so good, I have been able to authentiacte to all my AFP shares with existing user accounts, log in to client systems with existing user accounts and successfully bind computers using our DeployStudio workflows. This works for both my 10.8 and 10.6 clients.
So the problem, I created some new accounts using Workgroup manager and was unable to authenticate at a log in screen or when attempting to connect to a share point. I did learn that setting users up in Workgroup manager does not enable all the services for the users, including File Sharing. No problem, I go into Server.app and enable the services I want. I am now able to authenticate to sharepoints with my new users but I can only authenticate at the log in screen on 10.8 clients. When I try on 10.6 clients, I almost immediately get the no go shake.
The Apple tech left me with the request to reimage one of my 10.6 clients so it is fresh, bind it and try again. Well I have done that. Still no go. I am still going to call Apple about it but I am not confident they will be able to resolve it for me. So I am putting this out there to see if anyone has any tips.

Here is what I ended up doing to get all the services automatically enabled whenever I add a user using Workgroup Manager.
I have a group called all staff. This group shows up in both Workgroup Manager and Server.app. In Server.app I gave the All Staff group access to all the services. Now when I add a user with Workgroup Manager, as long as they are placed in the All Staff group, then they automatically inherit the permissions applied to the group. Obviously you could do this for any group and just make sure the user is placed appropriately. Not even Apple recommended that to me while I was troubleshooting this with them.
I don't have any replica's going, so I am not sure what the procedure would be for that but I would assume that since they are replicating that all of the permissions and inherited settings would replicate. But I cannot test that theory.
Also for anyone reading my original post, I was able to fix the problem where my users were only able to log into 10.8 machines and not 10.6. Demoting the Open Directory master and then re-setting it up fixed the problem. Only that deletes all user passwords. Luckily I only have a little over 100 users so we manually entered all the passwords. Probably not the best solution for someone who has thousands.

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