win2k - 2003k dc upgrade

I am tryinig to move my 2k dc to a 2003k dc i read that you have to run
adprep before trying to dcpromo to the 2003 server i ran the adprep
/forestprep and had no problems but when i try to run the adprep /domainprep
i get the error "adprep was unable to check the domain update status" and
""adprep encountered an LDAP error {Error code: 0x20. Server extended error
code 0x208d, Server error message:0000208D: nameErr: DISID-031001bd , problem
2001 (NO_OBJECT), data 0, best match of: CN=Servers,CN=Default-First-Site,
CN=Sites, CN=Configuration, DC=abccorp, DC=abc DC=com' so what is this
telling me????????? i tried to run adprep /forestprep again but isaid that
it has allready run so it stoped any help would be greatly apreicated. what
i want to do is add the 2003k as a backup dc then than transfer the FSMO
roles and remove the old system from the domain
thanks in advance for any help.
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