ad restore... maddening!

i need to test an AD restore to completely different hardware. should i not be able to simply do the following:

*backup system state on DC
*build new server
*install AD (same names etc..)
*boot to directory services restore mode
*restore system state
*reboot

what am i missing because this surely doesnt work

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