SMB Home folders on Tiger Client

I'm trying to join a Tiger client (10.4.9) to a AD domain where the users home folders reside in a SMB share on a FreeBSD machine. Joining the machine to the domain was no problem, but when I attempt to login with a AD username the mac just hangs at the login screen. I am able to ssh to the machine while this is going on by using a local administrator account where I see the following lines in the log over and over... automount[1577]: Can't mount server.domain.ca:/username on /private/Network/Servers/server.domain.ca:/username: Invalid argument (22) automount[1577]: Attempt to mount /automount/Servers/server.domain.ca:/username returned 22 (Invalid argument) If I check the "Force local home directory on startup disk" box, I am able to log in to the machine, and it mounts my SMB home folder on the desktop, however it also creates a folder in /Users/ which I don't really want. I have read similar reports of this problem but haven't found anyone talking about a potential solution. Does anyone out there know how to get around this problem?