You assumed to much there in your last post. I work part time as a IT tech for small businesses. Were the 7 reinstalls come in is using WinXP Home Upgrade CDs to fix cratering Win98 workstations that I need to save the data on. Its not really so much an issue now, as we have finally gotten most of our clients at least to Win2000.
I was just pointing out the fact that use to the Non-OEM version allowed 7 reinstalls before the phone call. I just recently was upgrading two Dells from Win2000 to XP. One ended up needing XP Professional on it instead of Home. But when I went to load the now extra XP Home on anther PC it would not activate. I wonder if it had something to do with activating after installation, since it was different hardware. Who knows. Its not a problem calling MS, other then the non English speaking employees and the llooonnnggg ID key that you have to give them to in turn get the new activation key.
The other good point as you alluded to. We only sell primarily HP desktops and notebooks. Which come with an OEM XP CD. So on those workstations reinstalling is no problem. As far as Ghost I will start using that on clients that have similar workstations like this one Doctor Office that just bought all new PCs and laptops for their two offices. But we don't have to many clients like that. Most of mismatches of vairous brands and ages. I just got done a few weeks ago replacine a Compaq Deskpro that was a Pent. 133 16MB with Win95. The sad was it was all the customer needed since the user that used this workstation only connected to the Unix Box.