Users Losing Home Folder connection?

I bought a new server (Mac Pro Intel with three hard drives) and have spent the last two months moving user accounts from the old ldap to the new, This has been a pain in the butt butt it needed to be done.
So for a while there I had two ldap entries in Directory Access for users. I finished the move of all users to the new ldap last week and turneded off the old one. I am in the process of putting out a new image which only has the one ldap entry.
We are running network accounts. Server is a MAcPro running 10.4.11 End user cpus are iMacs or eMacs all running 10.4.11
Issues:
Many times a person logs in and are treated like a new user. It wants to set up their email, no bookmarks, etc. Only a restart fixes.
MAny times a person will be working and troubles like email says it can't be shown because it hasn't been downloaded from the server and to connect to the network, user will be unable to save and the documents folder will get a transparent ? over it happen. All of these things happen during th same session. Only a restart fixes.
I ran the a permission fix program on the docs because the names of the home folders have changed.
I am frustrated beyond belief..... Suggestions?

How exactly did you make the move from one server to another?
I ask because it sounds like you created new users on the new server and moved their folders over. If this is the case, you should expect some issues to crop up. You'll need to assign the permissions to each and every user directory on the new server...or am I missing something?
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