Choose Dock based on OS

Hello all,
I've run into a weird problem at work. We are deploying some new Leopard macs with Office 2008 and we've noticed that any of our employees who log in are getting the ? icon on their dock for any of the office programs. Turns out that the path names we've used in the past no longer work in office 2008; the path has to be very strict. Seeing as we're only deploying about 30 new work stations and we have over 200 already working with office 2004, we don't want to change the current setup to accomodate the new dock.
What I'm wondering is if there is a way to tell the local machine, via workgroup management, that if a person logs into an OS 10.5 machine to load a dock with the proper icons for Office 2008 (assume all 10.5 machines will have 2008 installed on them), and if that same person logs into a 10.4 or lower to load the other (current) dock with the proper paths for office (2004).
I know how I could do this via a script: hook into their login to check the system profiler and then grab the appropriate dock from the server and copy it into the preferences. However, before I go through those lengths I wanted to see if a tool already exists in the OS. A co-worker hinted at it but I wasn't able to find any way to do it. The management server is running 10.4.11.
Thanks!

I had an idea, but I'm not sure if it's possible (my googling has not turned up any results yet...).
Is it possible to do conditionals in a plist? Meaning, can I have an if/then/else in my dock.plist to determine which links to load? I know that they are xml files, but I'm not sure how the os interprets them.

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