Outlook LDAP "bad search filter" when address book set up via admin deployment

[James R Ward]

We have a nominally customised Office 2010 setup that we use for deployment which works ok-ish. If the LDAP address book is included, however, it comes back as 'bad search filter' when you try to lookup a name on it. If you set it up manually (either by deleting the one that's set up as part of the deployment or by setting it up on a vanilla copy of office 2010) then it works absolutely fine with EXACTLY the same settings as the msp version.
I'm at a loss!

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