group policy

Hi
There are 2 type of user profiles a local profile and Roaming User Profile in there are Differences in each OS.Pls read on to get more info from MS.
Good luck
Mohamed

1- How Windows Chooses Between Roaming and Local Profiles
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q146/1/92.asp

2 - How to Create and Copy Roaming User Profiles in Windows

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q142/6/82.asp

3- How to Move the Location of a Locally Cached Profile

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q214/4/70.ASP

4- How to Set the Path for the Local Default User Profile

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q214/6/36.ASP

5- How to Set the Path for the All Users Profile

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q214/6/53.ASP

6- Using User Profiles with Windows

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q224/0/12.ASP

7- User Profile Storage in Windows 2000

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q228/4/45.ASP

8-How to Assign a Logon Script to a Profile for a Local User

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q258/2/86.ASP

9- Differences in the User Profiles of Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q269/3/78.ASP

You need to make sure that the GPOs you have set up that contain the user policies (like Desktop settings, User Profile locations, logon/logoff scripts, etc) are applied to a Site/Domain/OU that the users you want to affect are in.
To me, this sounds like you applied the GPOs to a container that only houses your Domain Controllers. If you apply the GPOs on the domain your users are members of, then that will apply to them no matter what machine they log onto.
So, make sure you didn't just putthe GPOs on the Computers themselves, but somewhere that will apply to the Users. Make a Users OU and apply the GPOs there, for example.