sealepord - yeah that's exactly what I've done for departments. I created a share, each department has a folder inside that share.. and each Dept. folder has perms for just those people, and special cases. works great, but migrating everyone else would be a pain.. so im taking that step by step (have been for a year now), but I cant force all that change instantly because of a bug in kix or windows.. I do agree with what you're saying, though.

The idea with my script is that when it's done, my bosses (who dont necessarily have network administration experience) will be able to create accounts for new users and just by picking which groups to make the user a Member Of, they can have a fully functioning logon on a PC where said user could immediately get to work.. if I hard code in things to look for the user's id for a home folder, i am potentially causing confusion when I'm trying to un-obfuscate [Smile]

Regardless, thank you all for your continued effort- i'm still trying different things, digging around support.microsoft.com for KB articles.. starting to pull out my hair [Smile]

it's been a long day. i need a beer.