Thanks for the tip to read the white paper. It had a ton of information but it did not address my issue. I found the resolution at http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060310075328878. For some reason, my xserve would only bind with AD if I left the “computer ou” blank. Can anyone shed some light as to why this is?
I totally rebuilt my AD DNS, I reinstalled osx, I asked for help (usually with the same results that I got here…read the white paper) and finally came upon this. WHAT A RELIEF!!
Hopefully it helps someone else.