Local profiles migrated to domain problem

I've run into a problem migrating local profiles to domain profiles.

I'm doing it by what I consider the standard way. In System Properties,

Advanced Tab, User Profiles section. I select the local profile and tell it

to copy over the domain profile (created by logging on and off one time).

Things seem to copy okay but when the user then logs in with their domain

account, the theme looks like a "classic" ala 2000 scheme and the left side

of the Start Menu is completely blank. Also, users cannot even add networked

printers.

The user accounts (both local and domain) are NON-admin accounts and that's

how they need to be. If I give the domain account admin rights on the PC,

then the theme is the proper XP Luna theme and all of the Start Menu shows up

and they can add networked printers (also local printers).

If I create new domain accounts without admin rights on the local machine,

everything is as it should be theme-wise and with the ability to add network

printers.

I've gone through the registry of the domain profile on the machine and

found some entries that pointed to locations in the local profile. I changed

these to the correct domain profile location.

Also, there are NO roaming profiles so that is not an issue. The PC is XP

SP3 and the domain is at 2003 level.

The new domain account has FC access to their domain profile folder. None of

the profile folders, both local and domain, have inherited permissions which

is how it is if I don't copy and just let the domain account create its own

profile folder. And the local Administrator account on that PC is the owner

of the profile folder.

One thing I have noticed when migrating profiles in this way is that there

are registry entries in the domain profile (after migration) that don't get

properly updated. Some entries still point to folders in the old local

profile. This means I have to go through the registry, find the entries, and

update them.

But even with updating these registry entries, the migrated profile still

doesn't work right (see below symptoms) unless it has local administrative

rights on the PC. And as I said, this is not an acceptable solution. So

something is not happening correctly during the migration and I wish I knew

what it was.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix the problem? Why can't the migrated

profile work right unless it has admin rights on the PC?

Jonathan