Unable to log in user at this time / opening up all ports

I've got a lion 10.7.3 server and several Lion client boxes all attached via ethernet to an airport extreme.
I've got a bona fide certificate that seems to have installed correctly, and the client is talking to the open directory server
Without fail, I get a message "unable to log in the user at this time" on each of the clients...
UNLESS I open up all ports on my airport extreme to the server. 
I've tried opening individual ports for AFP, profile manager (1640, 2195), open ldap (389, 636) and even kerberos (88).  Even with all of these open, it still doesn't work.  I have to open up everything to get the error to go away - then the users can log in just fine.
Note, I'm logging in from the local network to a server on the local network, so this just seems bizarre.
I don't have the logs on this computer, but I recall that the error was occurring when it tried to mount the home directory, after authentication.  It was an error 64 from homedirmounter (if memory serves).
Any thoughts on what port I'm missing that might be causing the error?

3659 is the SASL port used by the password server, so that makes a certain amount of sense.
However, I still maintain that if your network is configured in the way I'd expect, the base station shouldn't be relevant. The clients should be connecting on a LAN-to-LAN basis so the firewall/filter in the base station shoudn't be in play.
Given what you say, I suspect you've misconfigured your network - probably at the DNS level and you're not running private DNS for your LAN, which would force the clients to connect through the public address. The risks and downside of this approach are numerous - not least of which is the fact that you ARE exposing your server to the general public (including all the less-than-honourable people out there). On that basis there is a risk and i'd look to close that soonest.
You should have a private DNS server running on your LAN that knows the private network addresses of your servers and clients. In this way any client should be able to connect directly to the server's LAN address, bypassing the public interface on your base station. I suspect that if you perform a DNS lookup on your server's hostname you get back its public address, right?

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