Yikes, I think I have confused myself.........

Can someone summarize the steps and MS applications included with XP and
Server 2003 to build, capture, and deploy an image that would be used on a
network. I thought I had the plan below, but have suddenly become confused..

Load and configure OS on master machine
Load drivers on master machine
Load applications on master machine
Run sysprep to strip SID from machine and remove hardware specific drivers3
Create image via RIPREP
Deploy image via RIS