Setting up 4 iMacs in retail store - help, please

Greetings, all.
I am in the retail cellular phone business. Opening a new store soon, this one a Cingular authorized dealership.
I'd like to use Intel iMacs throughout the store, and am looking for some advice on how to best set things up, as I am still a relative rookie with Mac products (though I am now a dedicated convert).
Here's the situation:
1 iMac - manager's office, should serve as the host of the stores network
1 iMac - Point of Sale counter, to ring up sales via register software and for inventory tracking
2 iMacs - 1 each at 2 different stations, at which credit checks and web-based activations will be done
I also use a core duo intel imac at home as my primary home computer.
Here's what I need to do:
1. access the stores network from home, to remotely check sales and monitor usage (snooping on my employees, more or less)
2. if possible, remoteley access the isight camers on each store imac from either the imac in the managers office, or from home (ive read a little on this, but would appriciate tips)
3. have all store imacs use the same idisk, for storage of basic store related files, documents, etc., and also for storing the data file from the register software, so that i may access it from home to check and crunch daily sales
4. set up email and ichat accounts for each employee, so that employees may message each other and me from this store, and later from my other 3 retail locations.
i think this is a good start... im sure ill come up with more later.
pls excuse any typos - im sleepy =)
thanks!
erich

Hi,
my advise is to go to a local Apple retail shop with soem knwoledge above selling macs and let them help you.
Your questions respectively the answers may easily get more complicated than average topics here and you will want to have your business runnng without coming here on a daily base for further questions.
To give you a quick overview:
1. Get broadband network in you shop, then you should be able to log into the computers from home, if remote login is set up. You might consider buying Apple remote Desktop. Even so monitoring "Monitor usage" might be illegal. It can be done many ways with free software that takes screenshots now and then...
2. No ideas.
3. Broadband network... but I would consider to set up one local iMac as server and let the others use this one remotely...
4. Look for someone who can set up a mail server on one of your macs or buy .Mac accounts for each employe ... helps with iCat and allows the Groups feature of .Mac to be used.
Volker

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