InCopy to determine length of article with InDesign template - possible?

Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew whether it is possible to create a report template in InDesign CS5 (which consists of a header/title image at the top of each page) and export it to InCopy so my editors can determine the length of the article?
So far I have only seen that it is possible for someone to use it as a standalone word processor (meaning that the editors cannot see the template headers etc) OR that I need to determine how many pages they can write in InDesign as create assignments from there.
I would really like to be able to just create the background template and the editors/copywriters can do what they want in terms of length of text etc.
The only workaround that I can see would be to create a 200 page InDesign doc with threaded text frames and the editors can type as little or as much as they like. I would then have to go into the template and delete the empty pages at the end of the process.
Surely there is a better way?!!?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

How essential are these images? You could theoretically start in InDesign, then export a text frame for them to work with, but with editors using the file over and over, you'd lose the previous content of the InCopy file every time.
Why not start in InCopy? You can select a column width and even a depth when you open a new file. If you have your body paragraph style applied and save it as a template, your editors will know exactly how many lines they're running. If you set a depth, it will even tell them when they're over/under the desired amount. With Smart Text Reflow turned on in your preferences, it will add and delete pages as needed. Going this route and adding the images later seems like much less of a headache than trying to start in InDesign.

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