OS X Server 10.6 always wants to be a Master Browser

I have already read this thread:
http://discussions.info.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=11058853
And none of it helps. In the smb.conf file itself, it's set to OS level 2, and no master browser. Yet I cannot uncheck the master browser, and this server is always forcing itself to be the master browser in an Active Directory domain, even though it's just a member server bound to Active Directory for credential purposes only.
The machine is only file serving; no other purpose whatsoever.
When this occurs, no Windows or Mac on the domain can browse the network anymore; it completely breaks that functionality for every computer.
Please assist, if possible.

I was beating my head against the wall because this wasn't working for me & then I realized it was because the config posted in the thread got changed because of the [ ] character being recognized as some sort of HTML markup or something.
The entry needs to look like below but imagine global in [ ] and put 4 spaces in front of the 3 config params:
global
local master = no
preferred master = no
os level = 2
After I fixed the formatting the server appears to no longer be forcing elections. Be sure to mark this answered if this fixes yours so that others like me don't waste all day before realizing Apple doesn't let you post plain text on their stupid tech forums.

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