Creating Network Home Folders problem

Hi All Here is a problem i've noticed recently that has affected our os 10 environment. I've seen this same problem reported before, but no conclusive resolution steps have been put forward, so i was hoping that someone on the boards can give us some insight into it. We have a single Xserve G5 running 10.4.4 setup as and OD master and attached to an Xserve RAID via direct FC connection, the raid array is the storage location for all our users network home folders, all network home folders were created without a problem when our 15 or so user accounts were initially created in Open Directory. But recently i deleted and then attempted to recreate the network home for a user account but nothing happens when i click Create Home Now in Workgroup manager. I've looked at the known issues surrounding this problem, namely DNS and Share permissions and nothing appears to be out of place. Our DNS is handled by a Windows 2000 server box, not ideal i know, but we do have fully qualified forward and reverse lookups for all our client machines (via DynamicDNS) and for the Xserve (manual entries). I'm not sure about the share point permissions, is there anyway to check the os x server logs for permissions or folder creation errors that may have been logged when attempting to create the home folders. The biggest headache for me is not being able to decipher from the opendirectory and afp logs in server admin as to what or where the problem is. I'm not even convinced that these are the best logs to check. If someone could point me in the right direction and advice on the best way to use the commandline "createhomedir" ....I attempted "createhomedir -a" on our xserve but that had no affect, do i need to use particular switches for it to do what i've described above ?