New laptop means new profile, new headaches....

Greetings everyone,

Well, the boss just got a brand new Thinkpad T42 to take the place of
his workstation. Joy.

I've played the musical profiles game before with the home and work
PCs, and it was a challenge.

Now the laptop will be the sole machine going back and forth between
home and the office, as well as on the road. Of course he wants one
profile to do it all, doesnt want to log on with different accounts.

My mistake was joining his laptop to the office domain (Laptop is XP
Pro and Domain is SBS 2003) before thinking it through. I also set up
his Exchange mailbox and imported all his personal folders to make his
Outlook 2003 look just like his old configuration. Now what I
"remembered" is that both his home and office workstations logged on
using a local user account with the same name and password as his
domain account. This allowed him to access all the network shares here
at the office without being logged into the domain. Not my choice, but
it worked.

Now I have completely configured the laptop with his domain login only,
and we're trying to figure out the plan for when he is using the laptop
at home and on the road. Now it has dawned on me that I should have
just left well enough alone (local user with same domain credentials).
Any way to painlessly switch the domain profile to a local?

I would normally just copy all the subfolders in C:\Documents and
Settings\user.domain to C:\Documents and Settings\user, but between his
My Docs and the .PSTs, half the hard drive is already gone. Then I
thought of moving them instead of copying them, but do I then have to
re-import all the email? (this took forever the first time - GBs of
email).

To complicate things further, the email on both home and office
workstations were communicating with the exchange server here using a
POP configuration instead of a direct Exchange link. This was to
maintain his pre-SBS configuration as closely as possible. So his only
email account is a POP box that downloads his messages to a personal
folder (but leaves a copy on the server for the home machine to grab it
later).

Sorry for dumping this on everyone on a friday, but if anyone can point
me in the right direction I would be eternally grateful.

Thanks to everyone in advance for your assistance.

.

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