Markus,
Rereading your response... I am wondering, did you mean to say "rerun with the option checked"? i.e. as in how it should be?
I think I presumed that would not work since I had already overwritten the existing information. However, now I am wondering if there is a potential that might work. Reading up on active directory, it seems the way to reinstate a PDC is to do a non-authoriative restore so that the PDC uses the replicated information as the source of truth.
The option is says:
"Preserve domain trust token on destination" - Perserves the token that is used to authenticate a user or a computer on a domain. This option helps ensure that the recovered computer is recognized by a network domain after it is recovered.
I interpreted this as preserving the exsting information on disk but maybe it means non-authoriative restore so that the information is updated from replication? Can you speak to how this option actually works?
Keith