For application deployment and management post-imaging, check out Filewave as an alternative to Radmind and Casper that others have mentioned. It works great with large scale deployments (even Adobe products), and can also works with Windows as well. Basically, it gives you the ability to add, modify, and remove any file on the HD over the network on all your machines.

This one time I had to work under heavy time constraints, in a night club, receiving fellatio, with a gun pointed to me head!

The whole operation the employer was running was a bit shady, but thankfully it worked out in the end.