Advice for Mobile Users

This is my first time setting up SL Server, and I'm not sure the best way to proceed. I have a small workgroup of <25 client Macs for an elementary school. Each teacher will have a MacBook, there will be an iMac in each classroom, and a smattering of a few other iMacs and MacBook Pros. Every staff member needs an account, and then there will be a couple general-purpose accounts (a "student" account, etc.). For the per-person accounts, I'm thinking of using Mobile User accounts with Home sync so that if a teacher has to log into an iMac or another MacBook rather than her own, all of her files will be there. Along with using NetRestore for a few restore images, I think this would eliminate the need to run client backups over Time Machine service (I will of course need to backup these home sync stores).
Is there another way I should be considering to set this up? The portables will be off campus regularly (possibly every night), so Network Homes won't work. I'm not full-time support — just a parent volunteer — so I want it to be easy for on-site staff to minimize uptime. I plan on training the administrative assistant so she can issue a teacher a replacement MacBook or help them log into the classroom iMac and then re-image the problematic machine if it's having some sort of trouble. I have one Mac mini server running the entire show. The wired network is all Gigabit, and all the AirPort hardware is the newest stuff, so wireless clients are all running N. I don't want to trust any of these users to know how to back up their files, but I also don't want to overtax the network or the one server.
I know I'm asking more than one simple question, so if anyone rather than answer has links or suggestions of good resources I can read (printed or online) to help make this decision, that would be most helpful as well.

There is a simple, but limited way to do this presently. Just export the xmp data. If they're RAWs, you'll get side cars, otherwise it will be embedded.
When you copy the images to the RAID, copy the sidecars too and then import on the other system.
The limitations are, you don't get:
- History states
- History snapshots
- Stacks
- Collections
- Flags

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Ping!
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