Snow Leopard Client hangs when configuring services

I have an xserve with Mac Os X Server v10.6 setup at a remote site, and a VPN-connection (gateway-to-gateway) to our office.
When trying to connect my clients to the server the following happens (my clients are in swedish, so excuse any translation faults)...
1. I go to "System Preferences"-"Log In", press "Connect" by Network Account Server.
2. I type the hostname of my server (xserve01.mydomain.com), and it tells me that this server offers "calendar, email and addressbook" services.
3. I push ok, and and then push "configure services". The progressbar quickly runs through, until it reaches the far right, the status bar says "configuring software".
4. Now finder freesez, I cant do anything on the client. I left if for 1-hour, and still nothing.
How do I debug what is going on here, I tried locking through the server logs, but can't realy find anything that seems wrong.
I do see that the home-folder has syncronized with the server, so it appears I am connected.
Any ideas? Where should I look for what is going on?
What I am missing out on here?, is it ok to set everything up manually on the clients?
I would like it to configure I-cal, so that the group-calenders shows up. Will it if I get it to succeed?
Message was edited by: ronnie_as

Hello and thanks for the thought.
Client B and Client A have the same network setup - both connect via ethernet to a managed gigabit switch (Netgear for what its worth) - the server is connected to the same switch.
Funny thing is - Client B (the problem one) seemed to perk up again after running disk utility / repair disk+permissions on the Snow Leopard install disc... all good for a few hours.
But - recently started connecting slowly again to the server! After moving the test folder back and forth successfully 2 hours ago, then returning to normal work, I noticed the same server -saving sluggishness as before, even when saving small (4-5Mb) illustrator files back to the server.
Bit of a strange problem, as it seems isolated to one client thus far. Our client machines running 10.5 are fine with Snow Leopard server.
** One thing that I have a sneaky suspicion might be causing trouble - as the migration is still being done from old system to new system, my Carbon-copy-cloned system disk with a Leopard install is still occasionally being accessed from an external drive as I copy files over from it on occasion...
I am going to try disk permissions and then NOT attaching the mirrored system drive for a while and see what happens then...
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