I have a windows 2003 standard edition server, and have all Windows XP sp 2 workstations, last week a problem with the server (2 hour logon, DHCP stopped, DNS stopped, infact 80 percent of services stopped) forced me to reformat and re-install, (by the way the backupexec service stopped too so no valid backup).

I reinstalled and all seems happy with the server, so i dropped all the xp workstations down to work group and re-joned the domain, i copied the old profiles to the NEW one but its taking around 5 mins per machine to log in, it also does this but takes longer with a NEW profile DNS and DHCP is all ok and all pcs and switches are netgear 1gig and all running at that.

Any ideas would be greatfully received.