Xserve won't login after a restart

This has been happening quite often our Xserve will be running fine then i'll notice that some Apps aren't opening (retrospect - PureFTP - Server Admin - Finder) so i'll restart but it doesn't autologin and rejects a typed password. i do have a NetRestore image so i boot from another drive and Restore. But i would love to get to the bottom of why this happens.
it is about to happen again because the server has become unstable - everytime i open retrospect it now hangs and stops the AFP service! once i start AFP again its all fine - but i am certain next time i try to restart to clear the problems it will fail to login.
Below is my console log for the past few days - there are a few mention of not recognising password - any ideas how to recover from this without restoring from an image?
Oct 5 16:53:37 xserve /usr/sbin/PasswordService: client response doesn't match what we generated
2007-10-06 14:16:35.836 Remote Desktop[21198] addComputerToDOC: Not adding computer 192.168.181.53 because no hardware address is set.
2007-10-06 14:16:40.818 Remote Desktop[21198] GrP not requesting _registerDragTypes because the window is dying already
Oct 6 14:17:12 xserve /Applications/Remote Desktop.app/Contents/MacOS/Remote Desktop: SendMessageToAgentWithReply: gCmdReplyPtr->cmdResult contained error code -6405
Oct 6 14:17:12 xserve /Applications/Remote Desktop.app/Contents/MacOS/Remote Desktop: SendCmdPacket error -6405
Oct 6 20:05:27 xserve pure-ftpd: ([email protected]) [ERROR] Too many authentication failures
Oct 6 20:06:24 xserve pure-ftpd: ([email protected]) [ERROR] Too many authentication failures
Oct 6 20:07:15 xserve pure-ftpd: ([email protected]) [ERROR] Too many authentication failures
Oct 6 20:08:10 xserve pure-ftpd: ([email protected]) [ERROR] Too many authentication failures
Oct 6 20:09:03 xserve pure-ftpd: ([email protected]) [ERROR] Too many authentication failures
Oct 6 20:09:56 xserve pure-ftpd: ([email protected]) [ERROR] Too many authentication failures
Oct 9 08:28:36 xserve /usr/sbin/PasswordService: client response doesn't match what we generated
Oct 9 13:37:43 xserve /usr/sbin/PasswordService: client response doesn't match what we generated
Oct 9 13:37:43 xserve /usr/sbin/PasswordService: client response doesn't match what we generated
Oct 9 13:37:43 xserve /usr/sbin/PasswordService: client response doesn't match what we generated
Oct 9 13:37:43 xserve /usr/sbin/PasswordService: client response doesn't match what we generated
Oct 9 13:37:50 xserve /usr/sbin/PasswordService: client response doesn't match what we generated
Oct 9 14:33:59 xserve authexec: executing /Applications/PureFTPd Manager.app/Contents/MacOS/PureFTPd Manager
Oct 9 14:35:19 xserve authexec: executing /Applications/PureFTPd Manager.app/Contents/MacOS/PureFTPd Manager
Oct 9 15:01:50 xserve authexec: executing /Applications/PureFTPd Manager.app/Contents/MacOS/PureFTPd Manager
Oct 9 15:10:25 xserve authexec: executing /Applications/PureFTPd Manager.app/Contents/MacOS/PureFTPd Manager
Oct 9 15:12:27 xserve authexec: executing /Applications/PureFTPd Manager.app/Contents/MacOS/PureFTPd Manager
Oct 9 15:14:24 xserve authexec: executing /Applications/PureFTPd Manager.app/Contents/MacOS/PureFTPd Manager
Oct 9 15:15:26 xserve /usr/sbin/AppleFileServer: Server crashed and exited with status 2.\n
Oct 9 15:36:53 xserve crashdump[25161]: Server Admin crashed
Oct 9 15:36:55 xserve crashdump[25161]: crash report written to: /Users/artisan/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Server Admin.crash.log
2007-10-09 16:14:49.193 Server Admin[25383] Server got an empty response (servermgr_info may have crashed)
2007-10-09 16:14:49.194 Server Admin[25383] Disabling multithreaded transactions for xserve.artisan-creative.co.uk
2007-10-09 16:14:49.194 Server Admin[25383] Server got an empty response (servermgr_info relay may have crashed)
2007-10-09 16:14:49.475 Server Admin[25383] NetBoot got an empty response (servermgr_netboot may have crashed)
2007-10-10 09:21:44.032 Finder[13568] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
Contents/Info.plist --

Several questions come to mind.
1) Why are you using auto-login on the server. Ideally the server should run headless without any user logged in on the GUI. I realize that's not always practical, but it raises questions about how you're using the server.
2) Most of the problems sound like they're related to directory services since that's where the user accounts are stored. How are you using directory services? Is the server standalone? part of an Open DIrectory domain? Some other domain? a Directory Master itself?
3) Why are you using Retrospect? It's one of the buggiest piece of tra^H^H^H software around. I don't know anyone that's using it successfully on Mac OS X Server, and I've heard of several people whose problems have disappeared once they remove the software. May or may not be your problem, but it's an easy one to test in the short term.

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