Active Directory - Mac Network Home Folder

My network home folder in OS 10.5 and OS 10.6 (Leopard / Snow Leopard) was not connecting at all to my user folder on our Windows server. Initially, I was getting a partial listing of folders in my network home folder. But, clicking to open the network home folder would do nothing. No error messages or anything. After upgrading to Snow Leopard (figuring it would fix the problem), my network home folder in the dock just turned into a big question mark.

Turns out, the fix is to tweak your home folder setting in Active Directory: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2495

In the user properties window in Active Directory, you have to add the fully-qualified domain name of the server to the UNC path that contains your home folder:

I applied this fix in Active Directory, logged out of my session on the mac, logged back in and everything was working as expected.

Thanks for the fix Apple... but how about an error message saying the path to the network location cannot be found...?