Odd things after making a Disk Image

Hello All,
I'm a admin for a large group of Mac's. When I did my last hardware upgrade we deployed 10.3 and I built a master computer with all apps and sys prefs configured for our group of users. I then took that computer and made it my master and used Disk Utility to make a disk image of that pre-configured computer on a firewire drive and distribute the image to all new hardware that came in. It all worked well and I had no problems.
All users have been upgraded now to 10.4. I went to build a new image from scratch from a 10.4 install disk, did everything just like the first time around, with one problem. When I boot from the Firewire drive and use Disk Utility to restore the image back to a new computer and restart on the HD I see more than I should.
I see the links to etc, var, usr out on the root of the HD as links. Anyone can just double click on them and go right into any of these folders. A friend of mine said that in 10.3 their was a file called .hidden, that was a list of these links that were invisible, but it is no longer in 10.4. Does anyone know why this happened and how to fix this problem?
Any help would be great. Thanks
John

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