Server is suddenly using Managed Preferences on itself!!??

I had to shut down our Xserve the other day as I needed to swap the UPS cable.
When I restarted and logged in, I immediately noticed something wrong.
The dock was populated with applications that our managed users have set in WGM, it is also asking for passwords to delete files that before I could delete straight away.
There is also now a Managed Preferences folder in /Library which seems to have caused this, but if I delete it gets re-created on next log in. I have logged in as the same Admin user that I always use on the server, and this user is not in the WGM list, where on earth are these managed preferences suddenly coming from??

Sorry Kevin, but I'm not referring to Users & Groups, but Computers.
In Workgroup Manager, when you are looking at the user list, there are four tabs per se: Users, Groups, Computers, Computer Groups. You can manage preferences for any and all of these entities.
You seem confident that you aren't managing prefs for the logged in User or that User's Group, so you should see if you are managing prefs for the server as a Computer. So, go to the Computer tab, choose your server, if its present, and view Preferences to see if any prefs are managed.
Additionally, check to see if your server is a member of any of the Computer Groups and if they have any managed prefs.
Lastly, there is a function to have a Guest COMPUTER account. If this is enabled, it will be on the Computer tab and if your server isn't defined, it might be inheriting the guest preferences.

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