Thanks for your responses Catalystt, this issue is quite confusing. However, I disagree that this is just a "it doesn't work how i want it to work", because it clearly isn't working consistently. I don't think it's a want but rather a need for it to work consistently.
I can understand that you would question whether or not the base image is actually the same, because the image gets updated every quarter, so there would be minor differences but that is all in software versions and updating patch levels. We are talking about simple OS configuration setting here though. I have, however, confirmed that these settings have not been configured in the common base image and are only applied by the domain security policy, which quickly overwrites local policy.
I have considered it being a problem with the policy, but when I looked into that, it was clear that the policy was being applied properly but LD inventory wasn't scanning in the same information.
Since nobody seems to have a straight-forward answer on this, I'll be submitting a ticket and sharing the info once it gets cleared up.