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Three things

Lopos right (cost may outweigh benefit) We had what Lopo descibed Centrilized server ran billing and profiles. Altiris was AWWWSOOMMEEE, since you could console it formt he server to start then instruct the scripts to run any secondary installation, the whole became so automated that we just set up the jobs and never touched the boxes. However, cost is a huge consideration especally for a internet cafe that is charging $5 - $7. You have to sell 7 of those just to buy one client licence. That is why I suggested ghost a little more foot work but you can build up a library of DVD images to boot from and just swap them in as needed.

If possible use Mandatory profiles this again goes back to what Lopp was saying about centralized file servers but you can make it work without.

and regardsless of how many protections you put on a PC, and how much time you want to spend doing it, you will always be outwitted by somthing.

For almost 8 years I was the Admin for what we considered the best of breed Internet Cafe. It is still open and for a time was the cafe that most everything was copied off of as far as I know it is the oldest internet cafe in the US.