All,

Happy news!!

This problem has been solved. Thank you all, for your help!!

Although the single or dual cause could not determined these are the two things that seemed to contribute to the problem.

I had two NIC's on the client one was not connected to the internet the other was. I disabled one totally.

I had Norton Internet Security but it was still set to only trust the old domain. I added the ip address of the new DC/DNS/AD server.

The clue here was the error message in GPMC which said there was a core failure - I could edit and see GP's from the machine in question but GP could not be applied..

I did a:
ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /registerdns

Everything appears to be working now according to GPMC. (It is so much easier to use the new GPMC then the old MMC RSOP add in)

Also the KB MS document:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

for trouble shooting GP in MS Win Serv 2003 was a big help.


My next task is to determine how to properly harden my DC/AD/DNS server with a firewall.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!