PHD Clients default Save dialogs point to server if available

10.6.x PHD clients seem to default to the SERVER home folder (if it's available as a result of syncing or being on the LAN) This is quite a nuisance, as a user might be saving a file and then sleeping and taking their laptop home only to find it's on the server not in their local home folder.
Anyone else noticing this? Is this a new behavior? Possibly a misconfiguration on my behalf?
This command:
dscl /Local/Default -read /Users/<username> | grep Directory
Shows the following various parameters:
NFSHomeDirectory: /Users/$USER
OriginalHomeDirectory: <home_dir><url>afp://server.domain.net/Users</url><path>$USER</path></home_dir>
OriginalNFSHomeDirectory: /Network/Servers/server.domain.net/Users/$USER
It seems the open/save dialogs are using OriginalNFSHomeDirectory

I'm seeing the same for some clients and not for others, The clients are running 10.6.1, but are talking to 10.5.8 Server.
Each Mac was upgraded to 10.6 from 10.5.8 show the problem, Macs that were clean installed to 10.6 don't have this behaviour.
It looks like something to do with a preference that isn't coming across correctly from 10.5. I've already removed the ~/Library/Preferences folder as well as filesync, but no change.
Changing the affected users OriginalNFSHomeDirectory in Workgroup manager to /Users/username (so it points locally) doesn't fix the problem either.
I'm upgrading our servers to 10.6 in 2 weeks, I'm wondering if when the servers 'know' about 10.6 clients it will work correctly again...
Any ideas Anyone?

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