Complete backup of vista onto Dvds

I'm in IT at a local University and we recently bought 50 laptops with Vista basic on them, i really don't want to load uninstall all the crap programs on there and then install several other programs one at a time. I was wondering what suggestions you might have of programs to use. I want to be able to make a full bootable backup copy of windows and installed programs onto however many Dvds that will take, or possible even put it on our server and install it from there.

 

This link might help you.
Sysprep
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302577