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I have a Terminal Server Ghost--> It will not go away.

This is a 2003 Server running AD and terminal services.  This is so very strange.  I have 4 users in one OU who are all having the same problem.  The login is automated with the username and password on a thin client.  When they are logged in their user name appears when they click start -> log off.  For some reason while they are logged in the name changes!  It always changes to a user  TishaK. When this happens they keep group policy, desktop, email etc.  They lose all settings for printers.  They also loose rights to certain folders (will explain in a sec).   I tried reinstalling the user profiles by moving their folder out of documents and settings.  The folder is moved to a temp folder I created. I then take ownership of all the files in that temp folder.  I then log in as the user giving them a new profile. This only fixes the problem for a half day or maybe a day.  Since this action has failed to correct the ghost of Tisha I then removed TishaK from AD and then went into the registry and remove anything concerning that name.  Since I removed Tisha the users in that OU now have access problems as TishaK no longer exists.

It is like a ghost that just will not go away.  The only thing left to try is giving the users a complete new profile.  Anyone have an idea what is happening.  The server runs great other than this strange ghosting thing.
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"I tried reinstalling the user profiles by moving their folder out of documents and settings.  The folder is moved to a temp folder I created. I then take ownership of all the files in that temp folder.  I then log in as the user giving them a new profile."
This counts as giving them a complete new profile, unless you're copying the old one from the temp folder back over the new one?
I would say to copy any My Documents, Favorites and Desktop icons/shortcuts to a temp location, and then delete the existing profiles completely.
Have you tried logging in as these users from any other computers?
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I ended up creating new OU and new profiles.