If I may ask, how were these problem PC's built? Were they built from scratch, through a properly sysprepped image, or were they cloned off of a "master" hard drive using a disk cloning program?
Do these computers have a firewall that blocks outbound traffic? Are you able to telnet to the server port 9524 (10.10.1.159)? Is the service on 10.10.1.159 still running?