Slow DFS Sharing - Several Seconds Before Root Directory Access

I recently installed a new DFS setup for a client.  With this DFS setup, everything was working great.  That is until end users started accessing everything.  Immediately we noticed that any access to any share would take up to 10 seconds to access the initial root folder.  From then on it worked great.  Turned out to be this little problem.  When you have a DNS only space, Windows tries accessing servers and folders NOT by using DNS first.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/244380

Special thanks to this article for finding it:

http://serverfault.com/questions/50789/long-pause-when-accessing-dfs-namespace