Sudden problems with network logins

Hello,
I've suddenly started experiencing an issue preventing normal network logins. Logging in on client machines gives "The home folder for user "xxxxxx" is not located in the usual place or cannot be accessed" This occurs on every client machine - all are running Tiger. The server is running Leopard. This occurs with user home accounts located on the OD master, as well as the OD replica. The automount record appears to be correct, "sudo sharing -l" reports correct information, AFP logs show normal logins, as does all open directory logs. I can mount home folders manually (apple + K method), and permissions appear to be correct on home folders.
I've discovered that attempting to change directories to /Network/Servers gives an authentication failure, and, for extra fun, I opened a terminal window on the ODM, su'd to an open directory user (who had a home directory on the ODR)and poked around a bit only to discover that ls -l showed this user as owning everything, and everything had no permissions whatsoever.
Has anyone seen this behavior? Does anyone have any ideas?
Thank you!
Colin

Hello,
I just upgraded a complete company from 10.4.11 to 10.5.6, about 25 machines and exactly 2 of them show that behaviour. The network accoutns are all ok, you con use them on other machines. I can confirm that /Network/Servers is not a correct path on both of the bad machines.
Ther is NO issue with time synchronization, access rights or whatever.
Funny, the REAL interesting questions seem to go unanswered all the time...
Can anybody give me a hint (other than "archive and install")?
Regards, Lucian

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