Active Directory Home Directories

I am continuing my quest to get AD and OD to play together. My issue now is home directories. First our setup- AD server running 2003. The Master OD server is OSX 10.4.7, and the replica OD is 10.4.7 as well, although it is not in the equation yet. Home Dirs are stored on the OD master, but not on the boot volume, rather on a drive named StaffHD which is a share named Staff. The problem-- In AD I have defined the home dir as //alpha.hdnet.net/Staff/someusername When I log into the client, the top level home folder is created in the correct location, but is empty, well initially, as soon as you get logged in, it has a library and desktop folder, but no documents. I can get a documents folder created by opening a MS application since it has to create a MUD folder. The problem is that it is not from the user tamplate folder Enligh.lproj on the server. I also tried to use OD to create it by clicking on Create Home Now in WGM, but it did nothing. So I figured I would just use a script to manually create home dirs using createhomedir command. When I did this, it created a folder on the root of the boot volume of the server called staff, and then the home folder in that. I had an idea what was happening, so to test the theory, I changed the path of the home folder in AD to //alpha.hdnet.net/volumes/StaffHD/staff/someusername. I then went to OD and clicked on Create Home Now button, and it worked, creating the home folder from the enligh.lproj template on the server, in the right location. The problem is that when I try to login to the client, it can't find my home folder since it is not a valid UNC path. Thoughts???