SUS says client software up to date even when its not

Hi Everyone,
I configured SUS today on a recently updated Leopard Server (10.5.7) and waited until it downloaded 258 updates. Initially I have turned all the updates on and made them available.
I then went to a workstation that was telling me it was in need of updates, and in terminal did the sudo defaults write command. I then ran Software Update on the workstation and was surprised to see it report that the software was up to date. It showed my internal IP number on the menu bar, so I know it was looking to the internal SUS I had set up.
My first thoughts were that since this was a Leopard machine, it may have downloaded the updates in the background and was therefore not recognizing that they had not yet been installed. I went into Library/Updates and deleted all but index.plist and retried Software Update with the same result. I then went into /Library/Preferences again and deleted the edited com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist, which then rebuilt itself when I launched software update again, this time of course looking to Apple's site rather than to my server. And the 5 required updates showed up again.
I tried this same process on 4 other machines in the network (various types and systems from 10.4.6 to 10.5.5) with similar results -- all gave me feedback that the computers were up to date and no updates were available.
I suppose I should be happy -- no updates to do ever again!!! Can anyone shed light on why the server would be giving me this message when in fact there are a number of updates that I know are needed?
thanks, Dave

Thanks for the hint re OpenDirectory. I'm sure we'll proceed down that road once we have it initially working.
since I have several similar servers at my locations, I configured another one the same as this, using the IP address as the http URL. In the case of the second setup it worked fine and deployed updates correctly, so it isn't a name resolution issue.
Going back over my first install, though, There was a point during the process where the server was rebooted, and I believe this was before all the updates were downloaded from Apple. After the reboot, I noticed that all the downloads did indeed show as being in place and enabled, which strikes me now as way too quickly compared to the time it took at the second location. So I've concluded that perhaps I have a faulty download and the files are not really there.
Is there any way to confirm, or better yet a way to just wipe them all and force start the download process fresh from Apple?
thanks folks.
Dave

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