Using laptop at work (on a domain) and at home (as a local user)

I have a problem that is similar to others in this group, but I cannot
believe there is no solution to it.

The laptop (WinXP SP2) belongs to a domain, which is fine when I am at
work. When at home and not connected to a network I can log in to my user
account on the laptop and work with no problems. As soon as I plug in to
any kind of network (I have a home machine running Internet Sharing and
connected via an Ethernet network, and more recently a WiFi network with an
ADSL router), the system takes forever to do simple things like a context
switch, start an application, etc.

I therefore created a "local" user, gave access rights to the relevant
files and applications, even reconfigured Outlook to us my domain account
mailbox. This also all works fine when not connected but grinds to a halt
as soon as a network is present.

I assume that XP is trying to connect to the domain controller at every
possible opportunity, and this is what is causing the problem (no response,
wait for a timeout period, try again....)

Now in this world of home-working I cannot believe that it is not possible
to create a user account on a laptop which will appear to be a local
account, will have access to all appropriate data on the laptop and can
also connect to relevant networks.

I've looked in KB without much luck. ANy help gratefully appreciated

Rick.
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