Joining Vista Business to 2000 domain results in error

Hello! I am trying to connect a brand new Windows Vista Business machine to a
Windows 2000 domain whose name is - I kid you not - local. It's not
local.local, and it's not <companyname>.local, it's just local, so the server
name is server.local. There's only the one server on the network.

When I try to join the machine to the domain, I get the following error:

"An Active Directory Domain Controller for the domain local could not be
contacted"

Details of the message are as follows:

"The domain name local might be a NetBIOS domain name. If this is the case,
verify that the domain name is properly registered with WINS.

If you are certain that the name is not a NetBIOS domain name, then the
following information can help you troubleshoot your DNS configuration.

DNS was successfully queried for the service location (SRV) resource record
used to locate an Active Directory Domain Controller for domain local:

The query was for the SRV record for _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.local

The following AD DCs were identified by the query:

server.local

Common causes of this error include:

- Host (A) records that map the name of the AD DCs to its IP addresses are
missing or contain incorrect addresses.

- Active Directory Domain Controllers registered in DNS are not connected to
the network or are not running.

For information about correcting this problem, click Help."

Nslookup works just fine; all lookups (both locally and on the Internet) are
accurate.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

-Bruce D