Creative Suite 5.5 deployment using Symantec Ghost

Has anybody used Ghost or a similar system imaging tool to deploy a system with Creative Suite 5.5 installed?
As part of my organization's imaging process, we install and configure software in Windows 7's audit mode; run sysprep; and capture that image for deployment.
Are there any issues using a volume-licensed software in this scenario? Do new user profiles have to accept a EULA or do any other configuration.

Thanks Jeff.
I've looked at the documentation at that link, and it all seems geared toward using Adobe Application Manager to deploy installation and update packages.
I'm still interested in hearing user experiences with deploying Creative Suite 5.5 as part of a system image. My main goal is to be able to configure the software package once in Audit Mode of Windows 7's sysprep and have all of those settings be taken when new Windows user profiles are created. I want to avoid any sort of registration or configuration screens when a new user logs in to a PC and starts using a Creative Suite product.

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[Wed Mar 20 17:34:17 2013] *-*-*-*-*-*- :: END :: - SUMMARY OF Warnings -*-*-*-*-*-*
[Wed Mar 20 17:34:17 2013] ---------------------------------------------------------
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