Resetting Mac OS X Server 10.5

During the setup process for 10.5 Server, the install seems to have trashed its settings - all sorts of weird behaviour and can't reliably connect using serveradmin.
Can anyone provide a way of completely resetting 10.5 Server, so that I can run Server Assistant again?
Thanks
Richard

It is far easier to do a clean install, if there are complex settings you want to backup such as lots of DNS entries or static DHCP etc.., these can be exported and reimported after a clean install. If it's lots of users anfd groups, managed workstations etc... then these can be archives via Server Admin>Open Directory>Archive and re-imported, but if there are only a handful, just recreate them by hand in case any corruption is carried over. I really would do a clean install if I was you, otherwise you will be likely to be having problems further down the line.
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