Plist files keep being duplicated (for mobile accounts)

We are running a Max OS X Server 10.6.8 on a local network. On the same network we have several users under mobile accounts. Some of the mobile account users are experiencing a lot of issues recently. They were running on Snow Leopard, we upgraded them to Mavericks, but the problems persist. In their ~/Library/Preferences folder, they have a lot of plist files duplicated, example for iTunes:
com.apple.iTunes.plist
com.apple.iTunes-network.plist
com.apple.iTunes-network-2.plist
com.apple.iTunes-network-3.plist
com.apple.iTunes-network-4.plist
com.apple.iTunes-network-5.plist
And it's doing that for most of the plist files in the ~/Library/Preferences folder.
The same behavior is noticed for iPhoto in the ~/Pictures folder, and each one of the duplicate is pretty big (we are talking about an iPhoto Library around 30GB):
iPhoto Library
iPhoto Library-network-2
iPhoto Library-network-3
iPhoto Library-network-4
Is there a way to avoid this duplication and to clean the preferences files properly?
Thank you

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*1. from /Library/Logs/DirectoryService/DirectoryService.error.log*
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2010-06-18 14:04:11 CEST - T[0xB0185000] - User 'user1' (/LDAPv3/macsrv1.disney.ch) - ID 1035 - UUID 80699B6C-A90E-4D2F-9B07-FB78F72E9709 - SID S-1-5-21-4063190502-2217233148-2094676766-3070
*2. user IS showing up in the login window.*
If I configure the login window to show all users (including network users), then user1 does indeed show up.
*3. Logging into user1 via ssh works.*
*4. dscl on macsrv1*
dscl /LDAPv3/127.0.0.1 -list /Users
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