SCRIPTED INSTALL of Windows XP on a Mac - possible?

Hi everyone.
I've been tasked with getting our standard Windows build onto our new lab Macintosh's (for dual booting between Windows and Mac OS). Normally we would reload from a floppy image which connects over the network to the folder containing the unattended installation files and settings, or failing that from a USB stick, or CD/DVD containing the files.
Unfortunately if I plug in a USB floppy drive containing the standard boot floppy, the Mac OS firmware ignores it, and likewise with a valid USB stick. For the CD/DVD image the install fails asking for some of the files on the CD (clad.inf or something similar IIRC), and as you have no keyboard control you can't tell it to ignore this and continue to see if it would build successfully without the skipped files.
Has anyone managed to get a unattended Windows XP build onto a Mac? If so, could you share your pearls of wisdom?
Cheers,
Mark

I guess this is going to be the usual and I'm going to have to solve this myself
Oh well.
If anyone else is getting the cyclad-z.inf, cyclom-y.inf, utopia~1.wav etc not copying problem, try formatting your source CD with DOS name space, not whatever your burning software has as it's standard.
Cheers,
Mark

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