eDirectory Authentication

Hello there, we've been trying to get our OSX Panther server to authenticate to our Uni's eDirectory but we've so far been unsuccessful. We've gone through the macosxlabs.org paper on it and still failed. Does anyone have any tips, maybe on the eDirectory end as to what we should be enabling/disabling to allow the ldap authentication to happen? Should we even be doing it this way? I'm thinking that we could get the client macs to authenticate through the server to the edirectory thereby allowing the server to control the mac client's setup? Or am i just being stupid and try to set up the individual clients to authenticate to the edir? Please help! My head is about to implode! thanks for any help in advance, Dave Lee