Profile Manager - no code signing certificate?

I'm starting with a clean install of Lion Server. DNS is on an Xserve running Leopard Server.
- CA signed certificates in place
- DNS working fine
- I create an OD Master (I've done this through Server.app, Server Admin and from hitting the "configure" button in Profile Manger, which triggers building an OD Master), and when the OD Master is built, an OD-based CA is created along with an OD-based intermediate certificate, but (and this is my problem), the OD-based code signing certificate is never produced, thus I don't have a code signing certificate to select when trying to enable "sign configuration profiles"?
This is driving me insane. Anyone know why the code signing certificate isn't being generated?
Thanks,
Kristin.

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