roaming profile not loading

[mushoku]

I tried searching, but didn't find anything applicable.

I was using my computer yesterday and it worked fine. I shut down with no errors, then boot up again a couple of minutes later. I received the same error dialog twice from Windows (Login, I think) Script effectively saying that it could not apply my settings because permission is denied. After clicking ok on both errors, nothing further happened. I had mouse and keyboard control, I was able to get task manager up, and then successfully started my shell. However, while my profile was downloaded from the server, none of my settings are loaded - Outlook won't start, all office apps run the windows installer before loading, none of my custom mapped drives remain, but my domain "home drive" is still mapped.

A bit more information:
• All folders in Documents and Settings indicate that they contain files that are read only (green box within checkbox), even if they contain no files.
• I've tried deleting the NTUser.pol file in All Users, and I would have tried deleting my locally cached profile, but it doesn't remain.
• I am able to log on to other machines successfully.
• It is a roaming profile.

TIA for any help

[mushoku]

Apologies, a couple of other details:
• the checkbox does not contain a check, it contains a green box, which (I believe) indicates that the folder itself is not read-only, but contains files or folders that are
• When logged in as another user, my locally cached profile folder no longer exists (it is apparently deleted upon upload to the server)
• local admin receives same behavior minus the two errors. No errors are logged in the application log
• Application log gives the following two errors each time I log in with my domain account:
Folder Redirection (111)
Userenv (1085) (regarding the 111)
• Win XP SP2
• Office 2003

[mushoku]

Well, just so you know, we found the solution.

Apparently, on rare occasion, the Local Settings folder will get copied along with all of the other folders in a user's profile (within the Documents and Settings folder), and then the ntuser.dat file will become 256k in size.

We deleted the Local Settings folder and replaced the ntuser.dat file with a good one, and the profile is back to normal.