Local Administrators & Active Directory

I'm working on some Win XP laptops and am new to Active Directory so
hopefully whoever may respond will be very concise in explaining the
solution.

I use Computer Management to make certain Active Directory groups
members of the Administrators group. This works great, for a while.

Can't figure out what's going on... but our users seem to lose
administrative rights over their laptops at random. They will bring
the PC back in claiming they lost administrative rights while they
were out in the field. I check the members list in Administrators...
and all the AD groups that were members are gone and have been
replaced by a white and red question mark-like icon with a string of
random characters.

The users in question have had their profile pulled down from the
server and changed from roaming to local as to hold their settings...
so the profile should never change.

Any idea why the Administrators group members constantly are being
wiped out? This has been a recurring issue that I am unable to figure
out. Any input from an expert would be great.

Kirby

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