Broken LDAP? No group nesting possible

okay- this is getting weird - HELP!!! my server - OSX 10.4.7 (this one started at 10.2.something) it is an OD master using the WGM tool - I cannot upgrade the "legacy" groups to new groups, Nor can I nest groups into one another, even on a newly created group. the reasons seem to be that the Groups "record" doesn't contain both/either "GroupMembers" or "NestedGroups". I noticed that in the slapd.conf the line include /etc/openldap/schema/fmserver.schema isn't there (it is there on my other servers running as OD masters) short of blowing up the LDAP and starting over - I'm not sure where to look next. "dseditgroup -f n groupname" got me nowhere playing with it to more fully qualify things got me nowhere either dseditgroup -n /LDAPv3/servername.edu -v -o edit -f n groupname if i export the db using "slapcat -l" and make a backup of the password tables via "mkpassdb -backupdb" would blowing up the directory master and reimporting from those backups fix things - or would I end up reimporting my problems? Rich Leonard