Removing First Network Home Server

In Workgroup Manager, when you click on the "Home" tab for a user, you are presented with a list of home directory shares under the "Where" column. My problem is that I can't seem to remove the first one (after "(None)"). When I setup the server containing my first network home directories, I used the IP address. Now I've added it again using the DNS name, as that gives me more flexibility. But I can't remove the first one. When I select it, the "Remove" and "Edit" buttons are grayed out. I can change any of my other shares, but not that one.
Anyone know why not answer? I can't believe I'm stuck with it forever. Do I have to do it using the ldap command line tools?
It isn't because users have home directories on that server, as I have changed them all (and the second one has user directories but I can still delete it). But that leads to an interesting question: if I edit a home directory server record, for example the third in the list, and change where it is pointing, say to a completely different server, will the home directories for all of the users pointing to that third record change as well? If I delete the record, will the users get errors or will they default to "(None)" or what happens?
Thanks much,
Nathan

Hmm, here's some more info. The other reason I wanted to get rid of the first one is because I changed the home directory server's name. The IP is still the same, but the name had a typo. I was able to stop sharing the directory again and stop AFP and when I turned it back on, the afp:// link had changed from the IP to the DNS name. But the /Network path was using the old host name. It seemed to work, but I wanted it displayed correctly. What I ended up doing was going through and changing the computer's name in all of the config files in /etc (hostconfig is the main one, but all of them should be changed) and that corrected the typo in the /Network path.
I'd still like to know why I can't delete it, but I can stop it and make it disappear.
But it looks like I got the results I wanted.
Thanks,
Nathan

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