desktop settings won't stay

[Thomas Molina]

I recently tried installing Fedora Core 2 on a test machine at work and 
ran into an anomaly.

As the subject says, some desktop session settings won't "stick" between 
logons.  Home directories are nfs-mounted from an SGI server (Origin 2000) 
running IRIX 6.5.20.  

When I set up my desktop the size and shape of terminal windows remain 
between logons.  However, the autohide property of the gnome panel goes 
away.  I also prefer the "select window when mouse moves over them" to be 
active.  That property also goes away when I log off.

These things work properly when I create a user with a locally-mounted 
home directory so I am suspecting this  may be related to the nfs-mounted 
home directory.

Does anyone have pointes to something obvious I may have missed before I 
file something in bugzilla?