Strange behavior with System Preferences involving Guest Account

I work for a company that primarily uses macs and I have recently been asked to enable the Guest Account on all of them (as well as a general staff login). In doing this, I have come across at least one computer (they all run 10.5.5 or 10.5.6) where it seems impossible to enable the Guest Account. Here is what happens:
1. I open System Preferences, go to the Accounts pane, authenticate, and click on the Guest Account.
2. I check the option to "Allow guests to log into this computer" and a little busy sign shows for a second.
3. I click on another account in the list on the left.
4. When I click back to the Guest Account, the checkbox is unchecked. Also, the Guest Account does not appear in the fast user switch menu.
After tinkering around a little bit, I found that there was a "Guest" home folder in the Users folder. I thought that this was strange because I thought that this folder is created when you actually log into the guest account (I checked on another computer and found that this was indeed the case). I then deleted this "Guest" home folder and emptied the trash.
I again went through the same steps I did above (with a Finder window on the Users folder displayed) and found that when I check the box to enable the Guest Account, a "Guest" home folder appears in the Users folder. I deleted and repeated this process a number of times, all with the same result. I then began looking around for other occurrences of this problem.
At some point, I came across this discussion, which seemed to pose a possible solution: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9176908#9176908
As suggested in that thread, I tried creating a standard user with a home folder by the name of "Guest" or "guest". I filled in all the fields but when I clicked on "Create Account", it seems to work and then goes back to the Accounts preference pane except that the account I just created +*is not there!*+ I then tried this while the "Guest" home folder existed in the Users folder and it brings up a window asking whether I want to use the current "Guest" home folder as the home folder for the new account. Even if I click OK, +*the account still does not appear.*+
Does anyone know what is going on here? The next thing I'll try is an archive and reinstall, but a quicker fix would be nice, since the former involves running all the updates again (we don't have current versions of the Leopard install disks).
I would be very grateful if anyone has an answer.
-Nik

As it turns out, the Guest folder behavior is actually normal, but I still have not figured out why the guest account still doesn't work. My next step will be to try a disk repair. I've repaired the permissions, but that didn't seem to help as far as I know. I'll also try reinstalling the combo updater to 10.5.6 (as suggested by a co-worker) and see if that does anything. Last resort is the archive and reinstall.

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True
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you think there is something wrong with my gMSA accounts based on the information I have provided.
Nick

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I am trying to integrate OAM with our application deployed on WLS. I have set up an IIS proxy server and installed a web gate on it. I have seen a couple of strange behavior
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I am having a strange behavior in my environment. We are running Exchange 2010 with Outlook 2007 for client access. Some of these clients needs to access some pop3 accounts from diferent vendors.
About 2 weeks ago, we start getting error Ox800CCC13 (as described above) when users try to send email through their pop3 accounts in Outlook. This only happens to about 5 out of 100 users. I have removed the pop3 account and readded it. I was able to send
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Hi,
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For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs.To
add this DWORD value yourself, follow these steps.
Outlook 2007
1.
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2.
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3.
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4.
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5.
Right-click DefConnectOpts, and then click Modify.
6.
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7.
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