Network users and the default User Template

Hello all,

We have several Macs that authenticate via LDAP and have their home directory on the network. I would like to be able to have a default template for any user logging into the Macs for the first time that creates certain folders and files in their home directory. I have looked at using the User Template functionality in Mac OS X for this, but for some reason when a user is logging into a network account, it seems to ignore the default User Template I created.

I followed the directions here: http://www.makemacwork.com/customize-the-user-template.htm

and did a fix disk permissions afterwords.

When a new network user logs into the Mac, none of the things I have set up in my new default template get brought over.

Any ideas? Thank you!