Cannot load user profile!

Hi,

I'm working on preparing a base W2k8 image for a server rollout. Everything was working fine until I cleaned up the image before I took a snap clone of it. All I did was remove my domain user account and one other person's domain user account from the machine so that the user accounts wouldn't appear on the rolled out image.

I made sure I went through the correct process of removing users, i.e. under system settings, goto Advanced System settings, the Advanced Tab, the User Profiles Settings, and deleting the 2 user accounts. I didn't touch anything else.

I took the snap clone and assumed everything was ok. I then tried to logon to the machine using my domain user account to test it was working ok, and all I get is a blank screen on logon with some desktop icons and an alert in the bottom right hand corner saying that the user profile could not be loaded, and that the default profile would be used.

Surely I should be able to re-logon as an account thats been deleted if its a domain account, and the profile should be recreated?

Any help would be much appreciated!

Steven