OSX Server constantly drops Windows machines from domain

We have a 100 or so windows xp machines joined to the windows domain running on our Leopard server. Sometimes the xp machine cannot login to the domain. Says cannot connect to domain controller. This happens a LOT and happend in 10.4 and 10.5 server as well. Seems to be worse in 10.6.
The only way to fix the XP machine is to remove it from the domain, then readd it. This works until the next day when the server decides to forget about the machine again. All DNS and WINS entries are correct. The XP machine can connect to the domain controller and browse it by name and ip.
Does anyone now how to make the OSX server remember xp machines and quit doing this? It happens about 5 times a week so it's frustrating. If I join the XP machine to our real domain controller on a windows 2003 server it never loses it connection. Only when I join it to the PDC running on the mac server does it lose the domain abilities.
Lannie
PS Is there something under the hood I need to check, something misconfigured? Same symptoms on 10.4 through 10.6. Each version was a fresh build from scratch.

With Apple using domain technology from 10 years ago and not supporting Windows 7 I think I got my answer. Plus the fact you cannot buy a xserve now. Moving on to Windows boxes.

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