Carbon Copy Cloner and Disk Utilities

I am trying to clone my drive to re-image all my computers (27), I used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone my new image and it works well; however, If I use disk utilities to restore another computer to the new image several files that should be invisible are in fact visible (etc, tmp, & var). While does this happen and how can I fix the problem. Remember I have 27 computers to re-image and 125 student accounts to manage the fix has to be easy.

From "Supported configurations" at http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
"Mounted disk image. Cloning to a disk image will (obviously), not yield a bootable volume unless you use CCC to restore the image to a physical partition or disk."
From this, I gather that you must use CCC to restore the image. Presumably this would require using Firewire Target Disk mode, booting from a Firewire connected drive, or booting from another partition with the other Macs -- otherwise you would be trying to replace the OS those Macs are booted from!

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