Sysvol contents missing and no NetLogon share

Hello,
I have about 8 sites with over 20 something DCs and 4 domains. In this one
site that I am having my problem, DomainA has this one Domain controller
(DCA) that just recently was converted from physical to virtual. I know
immediately your gonna think what ever problems your having probably stemmed
from converting a dc (USN rollback). Well I did the P2V while doing some
other stuff to prevent USN Rollback. After the P2V everything was working
fine; Replication, authentication, etc. It's been a week or two, and I got
reports that some clients were failing to apply Group Policy. Traced these
clients trying to get Group Policy from DCA and saw that this DC's SYSVOL
share \\DCA\sysvol was empty, and that there is no NetLogon share as well.

First I attempted to rebuild the sysvol structure using the
NTFRS_CMD_FILE_MOVE_ROOT file creation process. This did not work for me.

Tried stopping FRS, changing the burflags entry to d2, then starting the FRS
again and the log entries were showing results (saying that the membership in
the domain set was resetting, the files were moved to the preexisting folder,
etc); still no contents in the Sysvol share. I forced replication from one of
its inbound replication partners and replication was succcesful.

I think that the reason there is no Netlogon share under \\DCA\Netlogon is
because netlogon actually lives underneath the folders of Sysvol?

Any suggestions? Below are the only failures in the dcdiag on that server
(netdiag gives no errors):
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Starting test: NetLogons
Unable to connect to the NETLOGON share! (\\DCA\netlogon)
[DCA] An net use or LsaPolicy operation failed with error 1203, No
network provider accepted the given network path..
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I also get this error in the system log:
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Event Type: Error
Event Source: NETLOGON
Event Category: None
Event ID: 5706
Date: 10/23/2007
Time: 1:49:25 PM
User: N/A
Computer: DCA
Description:
The Netlogon service could not create server share
F:\SYSVOL\sysvol\DomainA.COM\SCRIPTS. The following error occurred:
The system cannot find the path specified.
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I also get this error in the application log(the frequency of this error is
odd):
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Event Type: Error
Event Source: SceSrv
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1003
Date: 10/22/2007
Time: 3:05:55 PM
User: N/A
Computer: DCA
Description:
Notification of policy change from LSA/SAM has been retried and failed.
Error 4312 to save policy change for account S-1-5-21-x-x-x-x in the default
GPOs. For more debugging information, please look security\logs\scepol.log
under Windows root.
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Thanks in advance
.

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