Security - How to set up auto email on IP change for stolen unit recovery

I know most smart thieves will not put a system online until they have control of it, but for those who don't...
Can anyone point me to a script that would email our office when the IP changes in the background? It would really help as we have had a rash of systems stolen at our location.

Hello,
I've been meaning to write up something like this myself as our company routinely sends a dozen or so iBooks out to labs at trade shows. What I'm planning is basically to poll the ethernet MAC address of the current gateway and use curl to load a page on our website with the machine's info in the query string if this changes to one that is unrecognized. This page could also email someone. If the page doesn't exist, the request should still at least be logged as a 404 along with the query string. I'm tempted to actually try to serve and execute a shell script, if stolen, but that's a little like running with scissors. Another option is to take snap shot via iSight, if you've got one. There was recently some discussion regarding this at macosxhints.com.
There's also commercial software for recovering stolen computers. This is probably the most practical solution, but not as fun!
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