Cloning Drives with Bootcamp and XP

I have searched the internet high and low but have not been able to find a solution to my problem. I have 75 new macs that I need to re-image the drives to have Snow Leopard and Bootcamp running Windows XP. Does anyone have a solution so we don't need to run Bootcamp on each computer and install an image of XP on the computer? All of the computers are the same models and types, so drivers and all other variables will be out of the puzzle.
The ideal solution would to have some sort of hardware that allows me to install a complete Snow Leopard/Bootcamp Windows in one operation.
Any ideas?

Before I marked as solved, I'm going to do a bit of testing. From the documentation with it it seems to be the bread and butter to the solution. Hopefully the ARD works as well as it reads.
Thanks for the quick answer, I spent hours looking for this type of software.

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