>As I can remember there was(is) ab nasty trap wenn the homedir by itself
>is (nfs)mounted. Then you have to set the permission of the underlying
>mountpoint in the same way. (umount and then chmod)
>
>Hope it helps
>   Matthias Meyser

No, that couldn't be it as /home isn't mounted by itself. It's off of the 
/ partition...

Thanks though :)