School iPad Syncing Taking Up Large Amounts of Space

We have a computer syncing 50 iPads. After realizing that backups of each iPad were taking up around 80GBs of space on the hard drive, we deleted the "Device Backups" in the preferences of iTunes and gained all the space back. This is quite a temporary fix because it's much easier to sync new app downloads which will just recreate the back ups instead of downloading them by hand on each iPad.
We've not upgraded them to iOS5.
Is there away around this issue besides backing up the data to an external hard drive (not really solving the problem) or using iCloud (bandwidth issues)? I'd like to see a way of cloning iPads soo they just use the same back up or something to that effect, but I realize that might not be possible.

Yes, though not advisable for content that you may not be able to redownload on demand. I'm not sure what Audible's policy, but with iTunes there is only one download.
You can either place the device in manually managed mode, in which case content you delete from the library won't be automatically removed from the device, or delete the files from Windows Explorer while keeping the entries for the same in the iTunes library. With the second approach iTunes will warn that it cannot find the files to sync (you can disable the warning) but it won't remove them, and you retain the advantage of being able to automatically sync other content.
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