A while ago we had an issue where the System Event Log on the NPM server had tons of DistributedCOM errors saying that DCOM couldn't communicate with computer a.b.c.d. The main problem here was that NONE of the IPs belonged to any node in NPM. At the time, Tech Support suggested I reinstall the JobEngine and Collector. That seemed to fix it.
However, this morning I upgraded to 11.01 and the problem is back. None of the IPs listed belongs to a node in NPM that I can find.