A few of questions concerning the Oracle Client

Hi
Firstly, I'd just like to say that what I know about Oracle could be written on a very small postage stamp that had somehow been torn in half and then in half again.
Apologies for the waffle...
One of my roles within our organisation, is to create and deploy application using Novell ZENWorks to our users who will shortly be moving to a purely Windows XP SP2 environment.
Q1-Is the Oracle 8 client fully supported by XP SP2?
Our organisation runs multiple Oracle DB's and up until now, separate application objects have been created for each DB with that DB's settings in it's TNSNAMES.ORA file which is pushed out along with that application object. The trouble is that some users need to access more than one DB which means that they sometimes have multiple copies of the Oracle Client installed, using different TNSNAMES.ORA files depending on what DB they want to connect to.
Q2-Can I either carry out one install of say the Oracle 9 client and have one TNSNAMES.ORA file with all the DB settings in? Or even better still, can I install the client on one of the shared volumes on the server (I realise that I'd have to copy certain files to the workstation) and then get all the workstations to run the client from there?
Q3-Our preferred method of deploying applications is to use MSI's, but for some reason Oracle only supply some kind of primative and cumbersome response file system which I've found often gives random results depending on what the weather is like. Is there a better way of getting the client onto the workstations without having to mess around editing RSP's?
Sorry for posing such potentially dumb questions
James

Q1-Is the Oracle 8 client fully supported by XP SP2?AFAIK Oracle 8 products are no longer supported. Use 9i client instead.
Anyway here is link to certification matrix: http://www.oracle.com/technology/support/metalink/index.html
Or even better still, can I install the client on one of the shared volumes on the server...I guess this won't working. Install Client on each machine and share only tnsnames.ora, or you could resolving tnsnames from OID (LDAP) server.
Is there a better way of getting the client onto the workstations without having to mess around editing RSP's?You could make manual install and record the response file. That responsfile you could use on other machines. You don't need edit anything. Sorry, I can't see anything primitive and cumbersome on RSP. You can choose manual installation or using responsfile, there is not other option.

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