Im deigning a new mac infrastructure, any tips on sites of guides?

I hope somebody can offer some advice, but im after some advise or pointers on where to start on the design of our new Mac infrastructure. I would love to get some help in with this, but unfortunately with the way the budgets have worked out, there is no money at present
We are a college thats mostly Windows based with about 140 macs over 2 sites. At the moment all our Windows users are in AD, and our mac users login locally on each machine.
Im trying to decide if its worth using the golden triangle for AD/OD logins, or if its not worth it with the problems. Keeping it simple with a separate mac network would be great as there is less to go wrong, a better end experience with things like the 10.5 wiki and podcast working very nicely, but it would but lots of extra admin and not integrated with the rest of our system and network shares.
What did you decide in this situation? keep it a mac network, or integrate?

John DeTroye's series "Tips and Tricks For Macintosh Management" is pretty good. It was last updated for 10.4.10 but most if not all of the deployment and management information is still relevant and applicable.
http://homepage.mac.com/WebObjects/FileSharing.woa/46/wo/o18vmOC3usqheB6h.1/2.2. 1.2.26.31.97.0.35.0.1.1.1?user=johnd&fpath=Latest_Tips:Tiger-tips&templatefn=Fil eSharing.html
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