System loads user profile @ every login

A remote user on win98 connecting via a VPN using TCP/IP connects to Novell 5.1 server and excahnge on a win2000 server, every time user logs in it creates the user profile and loads the plolicies, if the user logs out it will create the profile again and load the policies, if the user does a shut down the system hangs or takes forever to shutdown. It seems as if the profile is being saved across the LAN,I have loged in a different user in this system and have no problems, I have loged in the user in another system and the problem does not occur,
Is there a local setting that will cause this?
I have never encountered this problem before, can any one help?
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on the client machine - run poledit, open the registry and look for a setting dealing with profiles.
been a while, but this should be what you need (don't remember settings)