I cant shed to much technical light on this...
But at my Uni, they made an image for Vista, then coppied it on 180 machines...
Sure they used a Norton Product? Sure i seen Symantec? So would that be ghost?
A techie installed of a disc, and then just changed the licence key...
Sure M$ actually have a utility to do this...
I am also lead to belive that you can create the ideal setup in VMWARE, and then actually copy the image to a fixed partition, however, not sure how this is done...