Changing machine names tends to play nasty tricks with AD. Its doesn;t handle Aliases well which is what happens to the "old name" pointing to the "new name" sometimes it gets done the other way depending on multiple machine/server setup and peering setup for AD. The Old Name pointing at the New name is the way it shoudl be.


BTW, this goes back to the wonderful days of AD not being AD but just NT domains. They tried to copy the NDS way of doing aliases... or... umm something references... in any case, NDS always handled it beautifully.