One server & group having login + mail problems

But other servers & groups are not.
Here is my setup at a K-12 school:
-Three XServe Intel Xeons (one per division of the school) for three groups of users, network home directories live on these intel machines, running 10.4.10
-One G5 server handles LDAP (OD Master), DNS, DHCP for our network (another G5 server is OD replica), running 10.4.10
Now, one group of users (Elementary School) is having very long login times, generally slow performance with applications, and they're also getting many errors with email: the Mail app gives them an error that it can't access their mail, as either their home directory is full, or that their mailboxes are locked, when neither of these are true.
I had thought there might be school-wide problems, but have been able to narrow down the errors, slow logins, and Mail.app issues to this single group of users.
I'm not sure which logs to look at to begin to try to remedy this situation, but if anyone has any suggestions -- what I should compare between the three division servers to see if the one is getting errors the others are not / what I might check in DNS/DirectoryAccess to see if one thing is not working on the one and is on the others -- any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
BC
The Churchill School
New York, NY

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