Windows Embedded POSREADY 7 - Domain Network

I am working on setting up a POSREADY 7 image to replace our existing XP based point of sale units. Part of this process is adding the POSREADY machine to our domain.
The segment of network that our pos systems are on has no internet access. Everything is firewall-ed back through our corporate network.
I thought that when a machine was joined to a domain, the domain network profile would be picked up as the one you are connected to. My machine seems to be connecting using the public profile and getting stuck identifying the network.
Am I not understanding things correctly? How can I make this machine use the domain network profile?
Thanks
sb

Turns out it was a hardware firewall issue. I am joining a child domain and in order to determine which network you are connected to, a dns probe needs to reach out to the PDC emulator of the root domain. This was not open in the firewall. Once
I adjusted my rules, it worked fine.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/networking/archive/2010/09/08/network-location-awareness-nla-and-how-it-relates-to-windows-firewall-profiles.aspx

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