Found a solution that worked for me....at technet forums. Still MS
should provide a decent tool for doing machine configs on non sms/ad
connected machines.

http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/...4418&SiteID=17

I was able to fix this problem on my copy of Vista after deleting c:
\users\username.

I had to go into the registry...

hkey_Local_machine\software\microsoft\windows NT\CurrentVersion
\ProfileList

Locate the key(S-1-5...) that had the old profile(C:\users\username)
and delete it. Reboot.

Not sure if I would delete the key with the administrator profile.