Xserve Podcast Producer

Hi Everyone
I posted the exact some thread somewhere else and was prompted to post it here. Which I am herewith doing:
I have been trying to setup Podcast Producer on a Xserve (Quad Core Xeon). I encountered numerous problems:
1. Xgrid wont authenticate (Kerberos problem?).
2. Workflows wont deploy to server with other users then the admin (not the diradmin). And sometimes not even the admin itself (random at best).
3. Xserve creates the user that executes all podcast tasks. But for that reason I dont have access to the Podcasts in case I want to back them up and or delete them.
4. When I share my camera with the server, so everybody could use it. The camera is very very slow. 3 sec delay!
+ more
My questions would be:
1. if there is any good step by step documentation (based on actual experience installing it and not apple documentation) on how to make it work.
2. Can anybody who made it work share its experience.
3. Where do i have to/can I save the podcasts so I can back them up or delete them as an admin?
I own both Mac OS X Serve Essentials 10.5 and 10.6 and none of them includes the Podcast Producer, which made me wonder.
It would be super fantastic if anybody had any hint in this direction cause I need to set it up rather soon.
Thanks a lot for your attention
Best
R.

Ricccc,
Deleting media from Library, or workflows from root user...
You will want to look in /Volumes/DATA_LOCATION/PodcastProducer/Content folder wherever it is located. "Depending on the server config.."
If you delete your media and do the "LIB SYNC" command from terminal, Your data is gone...
I find it easier to do this buy logging into the server as root.. Having the LIB page open.. looking for the media, finding the UUID, then deleting it from the content folder.
Here is what works for me...
Example on media location:
/Volumes/DATA_LOCATION/PodcastProducer/Content
To clear content from Lib from command line:
*pcastconfig --sync_library*
Be careful!!!! You have to know what the Media UUID is..
Rob...

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